Maintaining and concerning the life health of Tarim River:Connotation and Diagnoses for the Life Health of Tarim River

Tarim River is the longest one of inland rivers in China,even in the world.The Tarim mainstream water was fed by all nine water systems around Tarim Basin in history.Due to human activity and climate change,the source rivers of the Tarim mainstream has reduced to four since near 50 years,the water amounts was also decreased continuously.Moreover,consumption of water was severe in the upper and middle reaches of the mainstream,it resulted in durative reduction of water amount of the down stream and salinization of water quality,ecological environment was deteriorated,the life health of Tarim River had be threatened. Therefore,the new century engineering for rehabilitating the river ecological system to recover the green corridor of the lower Tarim River has been constructed since the beginning of 2000.However,Maintaining and concerning the life health of Tarim River is a long-term and arduous historical task.This paper gives prominen ce to connotation and diagnoses for the life health of Tarim River.In the paper,the meaning of Tarim River's life is described,6 items of connotation for maintaining the life health are put forward,and Five aspects of diagnoses of affecting the life health of the river were given.Five suggestions of health direction for the Tarim River life are made at last,which could be referencs for harmonious coexisting between human being and water in inland river basins,and for constitution of the long-range programming and the system of controlling river beds in the near future for Tarim River Basin.