Cocoto's Travel Notes: Don't just look for gems, few people know the core of the scenic spot.

Cocoto Sea is a national 5A scenic spot, but it can be seen in two days. Of course, two days is not enough to really understand Cocoto Sea. It is not enough to know Cocoto Sea deeply all your life. I have only been in contact with Cocoto Sea for two years.

If you have plans to travel to Cocoto Sea in the near future, it is recommended to collect it. It is very rare for the author of the history of Cocoto Sea to be a tour guide himself.

There are two ways to enter Cocoto Sea, usually from Fuyun County. Soon after leaving Fuyun county, we entered the hilly area, and the road turned around the hills. When we first went there, a car in front of us was said to have been inspected by a unit in Beijing and killed a argali. According to Deputy Minister Miao who was with us at that time, this place didn't produce argali originally, but it was killed just after it was discovered, which made us sigh for a long time.

Out of the hill, there is a lake in front of you, that is, Lake Cocosuli. The lake doesn't look deep, but strangely, there are many reeds growing, and some dense reeds form floating islands, which are constantly rippling in the lake waves. Reed and lake water are similar in color, and their reflections blend with each other, naturally precipitating tranquility and serenity.

The development of Cocoto Sea Scenic Area is still in progress, so the lake view with leisure facilities should have been built long ago, but it has not yet started, and it is free.

Soon after Cocosuli, it was the 87-66 election factory. This is the first rare metal concentrator in China, but it was 1975 when it was put into use, which failed to catch up with the initial development of two bombs and one satellite in China. However, the scenic spot is still worth a visit to learn about the mineral processing technology. At that time, with little technical reference, experts from China made great efforts to improve themselves and developed the world's most advanced beryllium and lithium beneficiation technologies, some of which have not been surpassed so far. And their research environment is as simple and crude as the 87-66 election factory.

There is another lake after the factory selection, that is, Ilmu Lake. The lake was formed in 193 1. At that time, the 8. 1 earthquake caused the mountain to collapse, cut off the river and formed a dammed lake. The water surface of Lake Eraim is about five times the area of Coco Suri, which is the main source of fish farming for Coco Tuohai people. In 196 1 "Liangguan", the fish produced here helped many people in Cocotohai to survive.

Lake Iremu, cited by Cocotohai Hydropower Station, only needs to drill through a mountain to reach the hydropower station. The diversion channel barrage has been built for more than ten years, and several methods have been tried. Finally, the caisson method is used to build the dam.

Keketuohai Hydropower Station is one of the red landscapes of Keketuohai as a red tourist base, which was built by the Fifth Corps. In order to build the hydropower station, more than 50 people in the Fifth Corps gave their lives. Later, Keketuohai Mining Bureau set up its own installation team to take over the power station construction.

The computer room is built on the hillside. The whole mountain has been hollowed out, and the deepest part is 0/36 meters from the top exit/kloc-,and elevators are used up and down. The first unit in Keketuohai generated electricity in February 1965, and the last three units generated electricity around the Cultural Revolution. There are also people with the characteristics of that era in the computer room.

Keketuohai Hydropower Station was once the deepest underground hydropower station in China. Later, a hydropower station with a depth of more than 200 meters was built in Fujian Province, and the Keketuohai hydropower station ranked second. The reason why it was built in the mountains was mainly to prevent missile attacks. Since its completion, it has not experienced the test of missiles, but it has been intact in all previous earthquakes.

Ten kilometers to the east from the hydropower station, you will reach the town of Cocotohai. It used to be the most prosperous place in Xinjiang: Soviets flocked in droves, all kinds of advanced machinery produced by the Soviet Union roared, and gas trucks pulling minerals and other materials came and went. At its peak, it had a population of nearly 40,000 and a high income, so it was called "little shanghai in the West".

The first impression of Cocoto Sea today is that there are Soviet-style houses everywhere. Most of these houses are imitation Soviet buildings built in recent years, but some of them were really built when the Soviet Union and China cooperated in mining rare metal mines, which is a witness of history.

Of course, in addition to Soviet-style houses, there are many historical witnesses. Machinery factory is one of them. The machinery factory, the 87-66 general election factory and the Keketuohai Hydropower Station are still in operation, but they are also open to tourists, basically maintaining their original appearance.

Machinery factory undertakes the repair of excavators, pneumatic drills and other machinery of Keketuohai Mining Bureau. After the Sino-Soviet friendship, these machines originated in the Soviet Union lost the supply of spare parts, and relied entirely on the ingenuity of machinery factory employees to repair, replace and reorganize with waste materials, so that some aging machines could play their roles again. One of the most representative examples is that the excavator that used a diesel engine was transformed into the one that used electricity.

In the later period, the machinery factory also undertook auto repair services. These mechanics have never been involved in car repair. They took the scrapped cars apart, studied the manufacture and function of each component, and finally became automobile mechanics. The machinery factory even produced qualified weapons and equipment such as rifle barrels at the request of superiors.

There is a geological exhibition hall in Cocoto Sea, which is a must-see place to learn about Cocoto Sea. The exhibition hall is divided into upper and lower floors, and the lower floor mainly shows the history and contribution of Cocoto Sea. Before liberation, the Soviets mined in Cocoto Sea. After liberation, China joined forces with the Soviet Union for mining without technology and equipment. At the end of 1954, the Soviet Union returned the shares to us with compensation, and China has been operating independently since then. CocotoSea has made three major contributions, paying off debts for the country, producing rare metals needed for two bombs and one satellite, and establishing a rare metal system in China.

The second layer mainly shows the types and functions of minerals in CocotoSea. The theme of this floor is a bit biased, but ordinary tourists will find the core point themselves. Beryllium, lithium, tantalum-niobium and cesium-rubidium produced in Cocoto Sea are indispensable rare metals for making two bombs and one satellite. Therefore, the relevant departments of the state awarded Cocoto the title of "two bombs and one satellite education base" and presented atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and artificial satellite models. These models are in the showroom.

There are mineral specimens in the showroom. Black tantalite is the largest single crystal tantalite in China. In addition, there are beryl specimens with different colors and shapes, which are minerals for extracting rare metal beryllium. Atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs are inseparable from beryllium.

Further east, in some places, there are mountains of stones. These stones are tailings after mining and mineral processing, which contain a small amount of rare metal elements. Some have been stored for nearly 70 years. Walking through these tailings piles is the world-famous "No.3 Mine Pit".

"Three Mines" is an unscientific folk saying. Before liberation, the Soviet Union explored rare metal deposits in the Cocoto Sea, and named this vein as vein No.3, which was left by the mining of vein No.3. This vein is the vein with the most concentrated rare metals in the world, mainly producing beryl, spodumene, tantalite and cesium. Of course, there are other rare metal elements. Among the 140 minerals found in the world, there are 86 kinds here. Therefore, it is called "World Rare Metal Mine Natural Museum".

It is Cocoto Sea, a rare metal mine, which mainly mines, that supported the early construction of atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, missiles, artificial satellites and nuclear submarines in China. 1960, Keketuohai continued to fight in the extremely cold weather of MINUS 40 degrees, producing ore to repay the foreign debt of the Soviet Union. Nearly one third of China's foreign debt to the Soviet Union was paid off with CocotoSea minerals. This great feat is still the pride of Cocotohai people.

1955 to the 1980s, the mining area was kept secret, and it was impossible to enter or leave without a letter of introduction from the formal department. Few people know that the nuclear bomb materials that shocked the world were produced here. But also provided the atomic energy development of China and the Soviet Union.

Less than half of the proven reserves of this mine have been mined, and now it has been sealed as a national strategic material. All technologies are ready-made and can be redeveloped at any time as needed.

Ayiguozi mine at the top of the mine is a part of No.3 vein, but it is mined in open pit. Before liberation, this cave was mined by a man named Ayi Guo Zi and sold to the Soviet Union. After liberation, it was jointly mined by China and the Soviet Union.

People who travel to Cocoto Sea generally hope to find precious stones. Indeed, there are many cocoa topaz, and emeralds, aquamarine and purple tooth black are all produced. However, near the No.3 vein, it only exists underground at present, and ordinary tourists cannot mine it. Gems can still be found in the fields of the third and fourth mines dozens of kilometers away from Cocoto Sea, but the routes organized by travel agencies will not reach these places. You can take part in local outdoor hiking.

There is a famous mountain in the Cocoto Sea, deep in the Altai Mountain in the east of the Cocoto Sea. At the same time, it is also the birthplace of the Irtysh River. Shenzhong Mountain flows from the foot of the Irtysh River and flows from east to west, gathering other rivers, becoming the only world-famous river in China that flows to the Arctic Ocean.

Shenzhong Mountain is a strangely shaped mountain made of granite. Around the mountain, on the steep hillside, is the summer pasture of the herdsmen in Cocotohai.

I have never admired the natural landscape of Cocoto Sea, but in all fairness, the natural landscape of Cocoto Sea is really unique. Cocoto Sea is a sub-cold pole in China, and the lowest recorded temperature is second only to Mohe River in Heilongjiang. The severe cold has a special effect on the terrain. At the same time, the earthquake of 193 1 also played a great role in the formation of the unique landform of the Cocoto Sea.

The Karashenger earthquake fault zone is one of the most intact earthquake fault zones in the world, which vividly shows the destructive effect of the earthquake and the underground materials after the ground is torn.