One of the north of ancient Silk Road, there is an splendid the most enjoyable stage of enjoying great prestige at all times and in all lands with magical and beautiful natural scenery ---Silk Road pearl sailimu lake. The sailimu lake calls the western net sea anciently, have another name called " Santai Haizi ", in Mongol is called sai li mu zhuo er means the mountain lake on the backbone. It is within the territory of Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala of Xinjiang that the lake lies, the North of Tian Mountains, east longitude 81 05 ' more than 81 degrees ', north latitude 44 30 ' 44 point 42 degrees

Lake long from east to west about 30 km, north and south wide about 25 km, girth 90 km, lake water area 453km2, lake surface high 2071m above sea level, the biggest depth of water 96 m, the average depth of water 46 m, the volume 210 hundred million m3 of lake water, the transparency of lake water reaches 13 m; The long-term temperature of lake region is relatively low, the highest water temperature is 19.3, the minimum water temperature is 0.3, annual average water temperature is about 7.
Lake look like whom one bright sapphire hang high between west Tian Mountain disconnected to fall into the basin, lake hills and mountains set each other off around the sky and water. In midwinter season, the lake timely snow flutters all in white, the snow wells up water to congeal, green pine and pure white snow that the spring onions assemble are enhanced each other's beauty, form immense and magnificent scenery of the snowfield of sea of woods of a northern part of the country. In festival in spring and summer, on broad meadow on the lakeside, the herb is like the mattress, the beauty is everywhere, many cattle and sheep, pastoral song are long, yurt order, order, form one full of ancient Silk Road picture scroll of poetic and pictorial splendor, can make people experience, return to natural romantic feelings fully, have a taste of the long and unique national culture out of competition.

The lake is far away from the city, there are not any industry, agriculture and domestic water to enter around, lake water clear and thorough and not polluted by any pure, Xinjiang above sea level most high, area heavy high mountain, cold water, closing nature lake most. The snow water resource of the wooden lake distinctive, not polluted by any while having a match, it had natural organic quality that the original and ecological natural environment made the lake produce the fish. Abundant mineral, nutrition element and the organism rich in microelement of lakebed depths, day gully shrimp in the lake water, offered the essential share of raising for fish, determined fish's abundant nutrition and unique quality in the lake at the same time.