The last man in Lop Nor

Noyuri was reading to me an article from ANA's Wingspan mag on The Silk Road.
The author had found the last man living in a certain Lop Nor ghost town out in W China . 104 years old or was it older ? long yellow bearded Muslim man who used to fish and live on the land , but had been moved by the Gov. and now lived isolated and dry place on the edge of Lop Nor dried inland sea where the Chinese did nuclear tests