On August 13, a scientific drilling penetrated 1050.24 meters into the salt lake sediment in the Sanhu (three lakes) area of the Qaidam Basin in northwest China 's Qinghai Province, well-known for its salt lake resources. It is the deepest drilling in the region so far. The 62-day drilling operation, named ISL-1, started on June 6, 2006 by a research team led by MA Haizhou, executive vice director of the CAS Qinghai Institute for Salt Lakes in collaboration with colleagues from the CAS Institute of Microbiology, the CAS Institute of Geology & Geophysics and the Lanzhou Center for Hydrocarbon Research.
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