Situated at the Burgin County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and inside the primeval forests of the Altay Mountains in the northern part of Xinjiang, the Hanas Nature Reserve was built up in 1980 with an area of 250,000 hectares for scientists to make further researches on such a beautiful and mystical place in the world so as to reveal its mysterious veil and to search for still unknown nature mystery. The word Hanas in Mongolia language means beauty and mystery, and it was said that there was a red makara hiding in the Hanas Lake which has an area of more than 50 square kilometers and a water depth of more than 170 meters. Until autumn 1985,through their effective survey, the scientific personal found out the truth that there are some 10 giant fishes called tainmen which has a weight of some 10—100 kilogrammes in the Hanas Lake. It is really seldom either in China or outside world that there are so many taimens living in the high mountain lake.

Moreover, there are more than 500 species of plants all round the Hanas Lake and also various wild animals including such rare wild fauna as snow leopard .sable, wapiti, snow hare, golden eagle. snow owl. Altay forest frog. etc. It was discovered in 1980 that 34 species of beasts and 72 species of birds including 12 species of first found birds in Xinjiang were perching within a small area south to the Hanas Lake. In addition, the Reserve possesses some special or rare tall and cold—resistant trees, e. g. . Siberian larch, Siberian Chinese larch, Siberian spruce and Siberian fir, as well as other plants, e. g. the unpeeled root of herbaceous peony, lily, yellow chrysanthemum, rose, tulip, etc.