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The Sichuan Basin (Chinese: 四川盆地; pinyin: Sìchuān Péndì), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributaries.
Sichuan Basin, basin comprising the greater part of eastern Sichuan province and the western portion of Chongqing municipality, southwestern China. It is surrounded by the highlands of the Plateau of Tibet on the west and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau on the south and the Wu Mountains on the east and.
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Sichuan Basin. This is one of the most attractive geographical regions of China. The Sichuan Basin is surrounded by mountains, which are higher in the west and north. Protected against the penetration of cold northern winds, the basin is much warmer in the winter than are the more southerly plains of southeast China.
May 3, 2024 · From economic, political, geographical, and historical points of view, the heart and nerve centre of Sichuan is in the eastern, Sichuan Basin area, also called the Red Basin (Hongpen). Its mild and humid climate, fertile soil, and abundant mineral and forestry resources make it one of the most prosperous and economically self-sufficient regions ...
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The Sichuan Basin located in the central Sichuan Provence of China is a prolific natural gas producing basin. The basin is large covering an area of 230,000km 2 and having proven natural gas reserves of 3.69 trillion cubic meters. China's basins are grouped into three main types tensional, compressional and transitional.
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south. Sichuan's capital city is Chengdu; its population stands at 83 million.
Sichuan Basin, with an area of 26.0 × 10 4 km and a tectonic location in the northwest of the Yangtze Plate, is one of the largest sedimentary basins in China with multi-stage evolution histories, which is rich in oil and gas resources ( He et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2021 ).
