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Shanxi

' (; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province

Political divisions of China

Due to China's large population and area, the administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since History of the administrative divisions of China....
in the northern part

North China

Northern China or North China is a geographical region of China. The heartland of North China is the North China Plain.It is defined by the People's Republic of China to include the Municipality of China of Beijing and Tianjin, the Provinces of China of Hebei and Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia....
of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
. Its one-character abbreviation is Jin (? pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
jìn), after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period

Spring and Autumn Period

The Spring and Autumn Period was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty . Its name comes from the Spring and Autumn Annals, a chronicle of the state of Lu between 722 BC and 481 BC, which tradition associates with Confucius....
.

Shanxi's name literally means "the west of the mountain ", which refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains

Taihang Mountains

The Taihang Mountains are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces. The range extends over 400 km from north to south and has an average elevation of 1,500 to 2,000 meters....
. Shanxi borders Hebei

Hebei

For the people of Hebei, see Hebei people is a North China province of China of the People's Republic of China. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province , a Han Dynasty province that included southern Hebei....
to the east, Henan

Henan

Henan , is a Province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-Chinese character abbreviation is ? , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty province that included parts of Henan....
to the south, Shaanxi

Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
to the west, and Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia is the Mongols autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the country's north.Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia....
to the north. The capital of the province is Taiyuan

Taiyuan

Taiyuan is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. In 2004, the city had a population of 3.4 million....
.

l primeval tribes of Han people were united by Huang Di( Yellow Emperor

Yellow Emperor

Huang-di, or the Yellow Emperor, is a legendary Chinese sovereign and culture hero who is considered in Chinese mythology to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese....
) and Yan Di into a confederacy called the Huaxia

Huaxia

Huaxia is a name often used to represent China or Chinese civilization....
to form the first nation on the Eurasia continent around 5000 B.C..

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' (; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province

Political divisions of China

Due to China's large population and area, the administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since History of the administrative divisions of China....
in the northern part

North China

People's Republic of China

Pinyin

Spring and Autumn Period

Taihang Mountains

Hebei

Henan

Shaanxi

Inner Mongolia

Taiyuan

Taiyuan is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. In 2004, the city had a population of 3.4 million....
.

History

Small primeval tribes of Han people were united by Huang Di( Yellow Emperor

Yellow Emperor

Huaxia

Huaxia is a name often used to represent China or Chinese civilization....
to form the first nation on the Eurasia continent around 5000 B.C.. During the later thousands of years, people in Shanxi Province migrated to all over China and its civilization predominantly impacted the human society of East Asia, including Japan.

Shanxi was the territory of state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period

Spring and Autumn Period

The Spring and Autumn Period was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty . Its name comes from the Spring and Autumn Annals, a chronicle of the state of Lu between 722 BC and 481 BC, which tradition associates with Confucius....
(722 BC - 403 BC), which underwent a three-way split into the states of Han, Zhao and Wei in 403 BC, the traditional date taken as the start of the Warring States Period

Warring States Period

The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE....
(403 BC - 221 BC). By 221 BC all of these states had fallen to the state of Qin, which established the Qin Dynasty

Qin Dynasty

The Qin Dynasty was preceded by the feudal Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. The unification of China in 221 BCE under the Qin Shi Huang marked the beginning of Imperial China, a period which lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 CE....
(221 BC - 206 BC).

The Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
(206 BC - 220 AD) ruled Shanxi as the province (zhou
Zhou (political division)

The zhou was a History of the political divisions of China of China. First established during the Han Dynasty, zhou continued to exist until the establishment of the Republic of China — a period of over 2000 years....
) of Bingzhou (?? Bing Zhou). During the invasion of northern nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms

Sixteen Kingdoms

The Sixteen Kingdoms , or less commonly the Sixteen States, were a collection of numerous short-lived sovereign states in China proper and its neighboring areas from 304 to 439 Common Era after the retreat of the Jin Dynasty to South China and before the establishment of the Northern Dynasties....
period (304 - 439), what is now Shanxi was controlled contiguously by several regimes, including Later Zhao

Later Zhao

The Later Zhao was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty in China. It was founded by the Shi family of the Jie ethnicity. The Later Zhao was the second in territories to the Former Qin that once unified Northern China under Fu Jian....
, Former Yan

Former Yan

The Former Yan was a state of Xianbei ethnicity during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.Initially, Murong Huang and his son Murong Jun claimed the Jin Dynasty -created title "Prince of Yan," but subsequently, in 352, after seizing most of the former Later Zhao territory, Murong Juan would declare himself emperor, and after that point,...
, Former Qin

Former Qin

The Former Qin was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms in China. Founded by the Fu family of the Di ethnicity, it completed the unification of North China in 376....
, and Later Yan

Later Yan

The Later Yan was a Murong-Xianbei state, locate in north-east of current China, during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.All rulers of the Later Yan declared themselves "Chinese nobility"....
. They were followed by Northern Wei (386 - 534), a Xianbei

Xianbei

The Xianbei were a significant nomadic people residing in Manchuria and eastern Mongolia, or Greater Khingan. They were descendants of Donghu before migrating into areas of the modern Chinese provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning....
kingdom, which had one of its earlier capitals at present-day Datong

Datong

Datong is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters....
in northern Shanxi, and which went on to rule nearly all of northern China.

The greatest dynasty in Chinese history, Tang Dynasty, has its origins from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Modern Chinese people are called Tang Ren globally due to the power and impact of the Tang Dynasty in history. During the Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
(618 - 907) and after, the area was called Hédong, or "east of the (Yellow) river".

During the first part of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was an era of political upheaval in China, beginning in the Tang Dynasty and ending in the Song Dynasty . During this period, five dynasties quickly succeeded one another in the north, and more than 12 independent states were established, mainly in the south....
(907 - 960), Shanxi supplied three of the Five Dynasties, as well as the only one of the Ten Kingdoms to be in northern China. Shanxi was initially home to the jiedushi
Jiedushi

The Jiedushi were regional military governors in China during the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. Originally set up to counter external threats, the jiedushi were given enormous power, including the ability to maintain their own armies, collect taxes, and pass their titles on hereditarily....
(commander) of Hedong, Li Cunxu

Li Cunxu

Li Cunxu was King of Jin, China and later became Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang .Li Cunxu was successful in overthrowing the Later Liang Dynasty in 923 and proclaimed himself emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, which he referred to as the ?Restored Tang.? As a part of ?restoring the Tang Dynasty,? the capital was moved back to the old Ta...
, who overthrew the first of the Five Dynasties, Later Liang Dynasty

Later Liang Dynasty

The Later Liang was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. It was founded by Taizu of Later Liang, posthumously known as Taizu of Later Liang, after he forced the last emperor of the Tang dynasty to abdicate in his favour ....
(907 - 923) to establish the second, Later Tang Dynasty

Later Tang Dynasty

The Later Tang Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty that lasted from 923 to 936 one of the five dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period....
(923 - 936). Another jiedushi of Hedong, Shi Jingtang

Gaozu of Later Jin

Shi Jingtang ??? was the founder of the Later Jin Dynasty , the third of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period that controlled much of northern China from 907 to 960....
, overthrew Later Tang to establish the third of the Five Dynasties, Later Jin Dynasty

Later Jin Dynasty (Five Dynasties)

Note that there are four periods of Chinese history using the name "Jin" The Later J?n was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China....
, and yet another jiedushi of Hedong, Liu Zhiyuan, established the fourth of the Five Dynasties (Later Han Dynasty

Later Han Dynasty

The Later Han Dynasty could refer to two dynasties in China:*The Eastern Han Dynasty *Later Han Dynasty , a dynasty in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period ...
) after the Khitans destroyed Later Jin, the third. Finally, when the fifth of the Five Dynasties (Later Zhou Dynasty

Later Zhou Dynasty

The Later Zhou Dynasty was the last a succession of five dynasties that controlled most of northern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, which lasted from 907 to 960 and bridged the gap between the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty....
) was established, the jiedushi of Hedong at the time, Liu Chong, rebelled and established an independent state called Northern Han

Northern Han

The Northern Han kingdom is a state of the Ten Kingdoms in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It was founded by Liu Min , formerly known as Liu Chong , and lasted from 951 ? 979....
, one of the Ten Kingdoms, in what is now northern and central Shanxi.

Shi Jingtang, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty

Later Jin Dynasty (Five Dynasties)

Note that there are four periods of Chinese history using the name "Jin" The Later J?n was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China....
, the third of the Five Dynasties, ceded a large slice of northern China to the Khitan

Khitan people

The Khitan people , or Khitai, were a nomadic people, originally located at Mongolia and modern Manchuria from the 4th century. They dominated a vast area in northern China by the 10th century under the Liao Dynasty, but have left few relics that have survived until today....
s in return for military assistance. This territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, included a part of northern Shanxi. The ceded territory became a major problem for China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
's defense against the Khitans for the next 100 years, because it lies to the south of the Great Wall.

During the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of hot contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty

Liao Dynasty

The Liao Dynasty , 907-1125, also known as the Khitan Empire , was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper....
. The Southern Song Dynasty that came after abandoned all of North China

North China

Jurchens

The Jurchens were a Tungusic peoples who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century, when they adopted the name Manchu. They established the Jin Dynasty between 1115 and 1122; it lasted until 1234 when the Mongols arrived....
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in 1127, including Shanxi.

The Mongol Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368....
divided China into provinces but did not establish Shanxi as a province. Shanxi was formally established with its present name and approximate borders by the Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
(1368 - 1644). During the Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
(1644 - 1911), Shanxi was extended northwards beyond the Great Wall to include parts of Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Hohhot

Hohhot , sometimes spelled Huhehot or Huhhot, is a city in North-central China and the Capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, serving as the region's administrative, economic, and cultural centre....
, and overlapped with the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners

Eight Banners

The Eight Banners were administrative divisions into which all Manchu families were placed. They provided the basic framework for the Manchu military organization....
and the Guihua Tümed banner

Banner (Inner Mongolia)

A banner is an political division of China of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.Banners were first used during the Qing Dynasty, which organized the Mongols into banners except those who belonged to the Manchu Eight Banners....
in that area.

During most of the Republic of China

Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
's period of rule over mainland China (1912-1949), Shanxi was held by warlord Yen Hsi-shan, regardless of the frequent political upheavals that shook the rest of China. During the Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the twentieth century. From 1937 to 1941, it was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan....
, Japan occupied much of the province after defeating China in the Battle of Taiyuan

Battle of Taiyuan

The Japanese offensive called ???? or the Battle of Taiyuan was a major battle fought between China and Japan named for Taiyuan , which lay in the NRA Military Region....
. Shanxi was also a major battlefield between the Japanese and the Chinese communist guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army

Eighth Route Army

The Eighth Route Army was the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that formed a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China which fought the Japanese from 1937 to 1945....
during the war.

After the defeat of Japan, much of the Shanxi countryside became important bases for the communist People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War or , which lasted from April 1927 to May 1950, was a civil war in China between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party ....
. Yen had incorporated thousands of former Japanese soldiers among his own forces, and these soldiers became part of his failed defense of Taiyuan against the People's Liberation Army in early 1949.

For centuries Shanxi was the center of trade

Trade

Tradeis the willing exchange of goods, Service , or both. Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter , the direct exchange of goods and services....
and bank

Bank

A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money....
ing, and the term "Shanxi Merchant" (?? jìnshang) was once synonymous with wealth; the well-preserved city of Pingyao

Pingyao

Pingyao is a China city and county in central Shanxi province. It lies about 715 km from Beijing and 80 km from the provincial capital, Taiyuan....
, in Shanxi, also shows many signs of its former dominance as a center of trade and banking. Due to Shanxi's geographic location in the Great China and its natural environment, Shanxi was the richest province in Zhongyuan or Center China. In the Qing Dynasty, Pingyao was the centre of Chinese banking industry, a county in contemporary time famous for its UNESCO ancient city walls and ancient China's Wall Street for its financial importance in history. In modern times, the mining of coal

Coal

Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
is important in Shanxi's economy, but has also been the subject of severe criticism due to its deplorable conditions. Since 2004 the province has been plagued with labour safety issues, including a slave labour scandal involving children

2007 Chinese slave scandal

The 2007 Chinese slave scandal was a series of forced labour cases in Shanxi, China. Thousands of Chinese people including children had been forced to work as slaves in illegal brickyards, and tortured by the owners of the brickyards....
, causing significant civil unrest and national embarrassment.

Geography

Shanxi is located on a plateau, which is in turn made up of higher ground to the east (Taihang Mountains

Taihang Mountains

Lüliang Mountains

The L?liang Mountain range is a mountain range along the western border of Shanxi....
), and a series of valleys in the center through which the Fen River

Fen River

The Fen River is a river in Shanxi Province, the People's Republic of China. It rises in the Guancen Mountain in Ningwu County in northeast Shanxi, flows southeast into the basin of Taiyuan, and then through the central valley of Shanxi, it joins the Yellow River in the west of city of Hejin....
runs. The highest peak is Mount Wutai (Wutai Shan) in northeastern Shanxi at an altitude of 3058 m. The Great Wall of China

Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China or is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the History of China from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of Dynasties in Chinese history....
forms most of the northern border of Shanxi with Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia is the Mongols autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the country's north.Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia....
.

The Huang He (Yellow River) forms the western border of Shanxi with Shaanxi

Shaanxi

Fen River

Qin He

Qin He is a male PR China freestyle wrestling who wil compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics.He personal best was coming 5th at the 2007 World Championships - 60kg freestyle....
rivers, tributaries of the Huang He, run north-to-south through the province, and drain

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
much of its area. The north of the province is drained by tributaries of the Hai River

Hai River

The Hai River , previously called Bai He , is a river in China which flows through Beijing and Tianjin into the Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea....
, such as Sanggan and Hutuo rivers. The largest natural lake in Shanxi is Xiechi Lake, a salt lake near Yuncheng

Yuncheng

Yuncheng is the southernmost prefecture-level city in Shanxi province, China. It borders Linfen and Jincheng municipalities to the north and east, and Henan and Shaanxi provinces to the south and west....
in southwestern Shanxi.

Shanxi has a continental

Continental climate

Continental climate is a climate that is characterized by winter temperatures cold enough to support a fixed period of snow cover each year, and relatively moderate precipitation occurring mostly in summer, although east coast areas may show an even distribution of precipitation....
monsoon

Monsoon

A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind that lasts for several months. The term was first used in English in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and neighboring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the region....
climate, and is rather arid. Average January temperatures are below 0 °C, while average July temperatures are around 21 - 26 °C. Winters are long, dry, sunny and cold, while summer is warm and humid. Spring is bone dry and prone to dust storms. Shanxi is one of the sunniest parts of China; early summer heat waves are common. Annual precipitation averages around 350-700 mm, with 60% of it concentrated between June and August.

Major cities:

Taiyuan
Taiyuan

Taiyuan is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. In 2004, the city had a population of 3.4 million....
Datong
Datong

Datong is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters....
Changzhi
Changzhi

Changzhi is a prefecture-level city in the province of Shanxi of the People's Republic of China. It lies between the city of Huozhou in Shanxi and the city of Hebi in Henan....
Yangquan
Yangquan

Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the Shanxi province of China. Situated to the west side of Taihang Mountain, Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,470 square kilometers and is home to a population of about 1.3 million ....

Administrative divisions

Shanxi is divided into eleven prefecture-level divisions

Political divisions of China

Due to China's large population and area, the administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since History of the administrative divisions of China....
, all of them prefecture-level cities:

Changzhi
Changzhi

Changzhi is a prefecture-level city in the province of Shanxi of the People's Republic of China. It lies between the city of Huozhou in Shanxi and the city of Hebi in Henan....
(??? Chángzhì Shì)
Datong
Datong

Datong is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters....
(??? Dàtóng Shì)
Jincheng
Jincheng

Jincheng is a prefecture-level city in Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China. Jincheng is an industrial city in an area where coal mining is an important industry....
(??? Jìnchéng Shì)
Jinzhong
Jinzhong

Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city with several 100,000 inhabitants in the northern half of Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China....
(??? Jìnzhong Shì)
Linfen
Linfen

Linfen is a prefecture-level city in southern Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It is situated along the banks of the Fen River. It was known as Pingyang during the Spring and Autumn Period....
(??? Línfén Shì)
Lüliang
Lüliang

L?liang is a prefecture-level city in Shanxi province in China....
(??? Luliáng Shì)
Shuozhou
Shuozhou

Shuozhou is a China city in the north of the Chinese province Shanxi, upstream of the Fen River. As of 2004, its population is approximately 1.25 million, and the city has an area of approximately 5,737 square kilometres....
(??? Shuòzhou Shì)
Taiyuan
Taiyuan

Taiyuan is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. In 2004, the city had a population of 3.4 million....
(Simplified Chinese: ???, Hanyu Pinyin: Tàiyuán Shì)
Xinzhou
Xinzhou

Xinzhou is a prefecture-level city of the People's Republic of China province of Shanxi....
(??? Xinzhou Shì)
Yangquan
Yangquan

Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the Shanxi province of China. Situated to the west side of Taihang Mountain, Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,470 square kilometers and is home to a population of about 1.3 million ....
(??? Yángquán Shì)
Yuncheng
Yuncheng

Yuncheng is the southernmost prefecture-level city in Shanxi province, China. It borders Linfen and Jincheng municipalities to the north and east, and Henan and Shaanxi provinces to the south and west....
(??? Yùnchéng Shì)

The 11 prefecture-level divisions

Political divisions of China

Subdistrict

Subdistrict is a low level administrative division of a country. In Thailand it may refer to the King Amphoe or to the Tambon. In England and Wales it was part of a Registration district....
s).

See List of administrative divisions of Shanxi
List of administrative divisions of Shanxi

Shanxi, a province of China of the People's Republic of China, is made up of prefecture-level divisions, which are divided into county-level divisions, which are then divided into township-level divisions....
for a complete list of county-level divisions

Political divisions of China

Due to China's large population and area, the administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since History of the administrative divisions of China....
.

Politics

The Politics of Shanxi Province is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China.

The Governor of Shanxi is the highest ranking official in the People's Government of Shanxi. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Shanxi Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and the ruling party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party....
Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Shanxi CPC Party Chief".

The province went through significant political instability since 2004, due largely to the amount of scandals that have hit the province, mostly on labour safety. Yu Youjun

Yu Youjun

Yu Youjun is a former politician of the People's Republic of China. Among other positions, he was once the mayor of Shenzhen, governor of Shanxi province, and secretary of the leading party group of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China....
and Meng Xuenong

Meng Xuenong

Meng Xuenong is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He was the Governor of Shanxi province. A native of Penglai City county, Shandong, Meng had previous Political divisions of China#Province level leadership experience as Mayor of Beijing, until he was dramatically sacked for his failure to control and conceal the SARS epidemic....
were top officials appointed by the central government to resolve sensitive issues as the province's party boss. But the situation has, by and large, deteriorated during their tenures in office. As a result both Yu and Meng were forced to relocate themselves to relatively insignificant positions elsewhere in the country. In 2008 Shanxi's regional political problems were complicated by the death of Political Consultative Conference Chair Jin Yinhuan due to a car accident.

Economy

The GDP per capita of Shanxi is below national average. Compared to the provinces in East China, Shanxi is less developed for many factors. The geographic location is a key factor since it constrains Shanxi's participation in the Global Trading which mostly involves eastern provinces of China. Important crops in Shanxi include wheat

Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
, maize

Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
, millet

Millet

The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal Crop or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a scientific classification group, but rather a functional or agronomic one....
, legume

Legume

A legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae , or a fruit of these specific plants. A legume fruit is a Fruit#Simple fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually Dehiscence on two sides....
s, and potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
es. Agriculture in Shanxi is greatly limited by Shanxi's arid climate and dwindling water resources.

Shanxi contains 260 billion metric tons of known coal deposits, about one third of China's total. As a result, Shanxi is a leading producer of coal in China, with annual production exceeding 300 million metric tonnes. The Datong, Ningwu, Xishan, Hedong, Qinshui, and Huoxi coalfields are some of the most important in Shanxi. Shanxi also contains about 500 million tonnes of bauxite

Bauxite

Bauxite is the most important aluminium ore. It consists largely of the minerals gibbsite Al3, boehmite ?-AlO, and diaspore a-AlO, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2....
deposits, about one third of total Chinese bauxite reserves.

Industry in Shanxi is centered around heavy industries such as coal and chemical production, power generation, and metal refining

Refining

Refining is the process of purification of a chemical compound. The term is usually used of a natural resource that is almost in a usable form, but which is more useful in its pure form....
. There are countless military-related industries in Shanxi Province due to its geographic location and history when it is used to be the base of Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, one of the three satellite launch centers of China, is located in the middle of Shanxi Province with the largest stockpile Nuclear Missiles of People's Republic of China.

Many private corporations joint with the state-owned mining corporations have invested billions of dollars in the Mining Industry of Shanxi Province. Li Ka Shing

Li Ka Shing

Sir Ka-shing Li, Grand Bauhinia Medal, Order of the British Empire Justice of the Peace , is a wealthy businessman from Hong Kong. He is the richest person of Han Chinese descent in the world and the eleventh richest man in the world according to Forbes with an estimated wealth of US$26.5 billion on 5 March, 2008....
, the most influential merchant in China has made one of his largest investment ever in China on exploiting coal gas in Shanxi. Foreign investors include mining companies from British Columbia(CA), Alberta(CA), Colorado(US), Texas(US), Japan, Britain, Germany and Italy.

The mining related companies include Daqin Railway Co. Ltd., which runs one of the busiest and most technologically advanced railway in China connecting Datong

Datong

Datong is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters....
and Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao is a city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
and exclusively for coal shipping. The revenue of Daqin Railway Co. Ltd. is among the highest in Shanxi Province's companies due to its exporting of coal to Japan, Korea, and South-East Asia.

Shanxi's nominal GDP in 2007 was 569.62 billion Yuan (US$74.9 billion), ranked eighteenth in China. Its per-capita GDP was 16,835 Yuan (US$2,213).

Shanxi is infamous for bad working conditions in coal mining and other heavy industries. Thousands of workers have died every year in those industries. Cases of child labour abuse were discovered recently.

Contrast to its poverty, Shanxi is known for its wealthy mine owners in China. Consortiums of mine owners from Shanxi have influences in Beijing's real estate market because of their speculation. The only other wealth group in China having the same influence is the entrepreneurs from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province which is the centre of light industry of China and the world.

Transportation

The transport infrastructure in Shaanxi is very developed. There are many important national highways and railways that connect the province with neighboring provinces.

Road

Shaanxi's road hub is in the capital, Taiyuan. The major highways in province form a road network connecting all the counties. Examples of major highways are:

Dayun Highway(????)
Datong-Yuncheng Highway (??-??)
Taiyuan-Jiuguan Expressway (??-??????)
Beijing-Shijiazhuang expressway (??-???????)
Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu expressway (???????)
Beijing-Shenzhen expressway

Rail

Shanxi has extensive rail infrastructure to neighboring provinces. The rail network connects to major cities Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Beijing , Yuanping, Baotou, Datong, Menyuan and Jiaozuo. The province also have extensive rail network to coastal cities such as Qinghuandao, Qingdao, Yantai and Lianyungang.

The province has a rail network called the Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway. It will service Shenchi county in Shanxi with Huanghua port in Hebei. It will become the second largest railway for coal transport from west to east in China.

Aviation

Shanxi's main aviation transport is Taiyuan Airport. The airport has routes connecting Shanxi to 28 domestic cities including Beijing, Xian, Chengdu and Chongqing. There are international routes from Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Russia. There is also another airport at Datong City which has domestic routes to other mainland cities.

Demographics

The population is mostly Han Chinese

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
with minorities of Mongol, Manchu

Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
, and Hui

Hui people

The Hui people are a Ethnic groups in China, typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. Hui is the abbreviation of the full name Huihui "??"....
.

Ethnic groups in Shanxi, 2000 census
Nationality	Population	Percentage
Han Chinese Han Chinese Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...	32,368,083	99.68%
Hui Hui people The Hui people are a Ethnic groups in China, typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. Hui is the abbreviation of the full name Huihui "??"....	61,690	0.19%
Manchu Manchu The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....	13,665	0.042%
Mongol	9,446	0.029%

Excludes members of the People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 ? celebrated annually as "PLA Day" ? as the military arm of the Communist Party of China....
in active service.
Source: Department of Population, Social, Science and Technology Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China (???????????????) and Department of Economic Development of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of China (??????????????), eds. Tabulation on Nationalities of 2000 Population Census of China («2000?????????????»). 2 vols. Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House, 2003. (ISBN 7-105-05425-5)

In 2004, the birth rate

Birth rate

Crude birth rate is the natality or childbirths per 1,000 people per year.It can be represented by number of childbirths in that year, and p is the current population....
was 12.36 births/1000 population, while the death rate was 6.11 deaths/1000 population. The sex ratio

Human sex ratio

In anthropology and demography, the human sex ratio is the sex ratio for Homo sapiens . Like most sexual species, the sex ratio is approximately 1:1....
was 105.5 males/100 females.

Culture

People in most regions of Shanxi speak dialects of Jin, a subdivision of spoken Chinese. However, dialects in the southwest, near the border with Henan and Shaanxi, are classified as part of the Zhongyuan Mandarin

Zhongyuan Mandarin

Zhongyuan Mandarin is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central part of Shaanxi, Henan, and southern part of Shandong.Zhongyuan Mandarin is considered the origin of Standard Mandarin, as the Han , China's dominant ethnic group, have lived in this area since the Zhou Dynasty....
subdivision of the Mandarin group rather than Jin. In terms of characteristics, Jin dialects are generally distinguished by their retention of the entering tone

Entering tone

A checked tone, commonly known by its Chinese calque entering tone is one of four syllable types in the phonology in Middle Chinese which are commonly translated as "tone"....
from Middle Chinese. In this respect they are unique in all of northern China, as most of the surrounding Mandarin dialects (spoken over the remainder of northern China) have lost it. (In central and southern China, it is much more common for the entering tone to be kept.) Jin is also noted for extremely complex tone sandhi

Tone sandhi

Tone sandhi is the change of tonal language that occurs in some languages when different tones come together in a word or phrase. It is a type of sandhi, or fusional change, from the Sanskrit word for "joining"....
systems.

Shanxi cuisine

Shanxi cuisine

Shanxi cuisine is derived from the native cooking styles of the Shanxi region in China, and it is famed for noodles, its fried Bing , and its sour taste....
is most well known for its extensive use of vinegar

Vinegar

Vinegar is an acidic liquid processed from the fermentation of ethanol in a process that yields its key ingredient, acetic acid . It also may come in a diluted form....
as a condiment and for its noodles. A dish originating from Taiyuan

Taiyuan

Taiyuan is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. In 2004, the city had a population of 3.4 million....
, the provincial capital, is the Taiyuan Tounao (????, literally "Taiyuan Head"). It is a soup brewed using mutton, shanyao (??, Chinese wild yam), lotus roots, astragalus
Astragalus

Astragalus is a large genus of about 2,000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae....
membranaceus (??, membranous milk vetch), tuber onions, as well as cooking liquor for additional aroma. It can be enjoyed by dipping pieces of unleavened cake into the soup, and is reputed to have medicinal properties.

Shanxi Opera (?? Jinju) is a popular form of Chinese opera

Chinese opera

Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE. There are numerous regional branches of Chinese opera, of which the Beijing opera is one of the most notable....
in Shanxi. It was popularized during the late Qing Dynasty, with the help of the then-ubiquitous Shanxi merchants who were active across parts of China. Also called Zhonglu Bangzi, it is a type of bangzi opera, a group of operas generally distinguished by their use of wooden clappers for rhythm and by a more energetic singing style; Shanxi opera is also complemented by quzi, a blanket term for more melodic styles from further south. Puzhou Opera (?? Puju), from southern Shanxi, is a more ancient type of bangzi that makes use of very wide linear interval

Interval (music)

In music theory, the term interval describes the relationship between the pitch of two notes.Intervals may be described as:*vertical if the two notes sound simultaneously...
s.

Shanxi merchants

Shanxi merchants

Shanxi merchants were prominent businessmen from the Song to the Qing dynasty.China Central Television created an eight-part documentary about them in 2006....
(?? Jinshang) constituted a historical phenomenon that lasted for centuries from the Song to the Qing Dynasty. Shanxi merchants ranged far and wide from Central Asia to the coast of eastern China; by the Qing Dynasty they were conducting trade across both sides of the Great Wall. During the late Qing Dynasty, a new development occurred: the creation of piaohao, which were essentially bank

Bank

A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money....
s that provided services like money transfers and transactions, deposits, and loans. After the establishment of the first piaohao in Pingyao

Pingyao

Pingyao is a China city and county in central Shanxi province. It lies about 715 km from Beijing and 80 km from the provincial capital, Taiyuan....
, the bankers in Shanxi dominated China's financial market for centuries until the collapse of Qing Dynasty and the coming of British banks.

Tourism

Jinci in Taiyuan, famous for its temples and Song Dynasty paitings and architectures.

Zuoquan County, famous for its China Communist Party battlefield sites.

The Ancient City of Pingyao
Pingyao

Pingyao is a China city and county in central Shanxi province. It lies about 715 km from Beijing and 80 km from the provincial capital, Taiyuan....
is a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
near Taiyuan
Taiyuan

Taiyuan is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. In 2004, the city had a population of 3.4 million....
. Once a great financial center of China, it is noted for its preservation of many features of northern Han Chinese
Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
culture, architecture, and way of life during the Ming
Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
and Qing
Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
Dynasties.

The Yungang Grottoes
Yungang Grottoes

The Yungang Grottoes are ancient Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Datong in the Chinese province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient sculptural sites of China....
, a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
in Datong
Datong

Datong is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters....
, consist of 252 caves noted for their collection of 5th and 6th century Buddhist
Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
grotto sculptures and reliefs.

Mount Wutai (Wutai Shan) is the highest point in the province. It is known as the residence of the bodhisattva
Bodhisattva

In the Buddhist context, a bodhisattva means either "enlightened existence " or "enlightenment-being" or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one for enlightenment "....
Manjusri
Manjusri

Manjusri is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Buddhism. Manjusri is the bodhisattva associated with wisdom, doctrine and awareness and in Vajrayana Buddhism is the meditational deity , who embodies enlightend wisdom....
, and as a result is also a major Buddhist
Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
pilgrimage destination, with many temples and natural sights. Points of interest include Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
(618–907) era timber halls located at Nanchan Temple
Nanchan Temple

The Nanchan Temple is located on the north bank of the Xiaoyinhe, Yangbaigou, 21 kilometers south of Wutai County, Xinzhou, Shanxi Province of China....
and Foguang Temple
Foguang Temple

Foguang Temple is a temple located five kilometers away from Doucun, Wutai County, Shanxi Province of China. The major hall of the temple is the East Hall, built in 857 AD, during the Tang Dynasty ....
, as well as a giant white stupa at Tayuan Temple built during the Ming Dynasty
Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
(1368–1644).

Mount Hengshan
Mount Heng (Shanxi)

Heng Shan in Shanxi is one of the Sacred Mountains of China. At 2,017 m, it is one of the five tallest peaks in China Proper. Heng Shan in Shanxi province is sometimes known as the Northern Heng Shan, and should not be confused with the Southern Heng Shan in Hunan Province....
(Heng Shan), in Hunyuan County, is one of the "Five Great Peaks" of China, and is also a major Taoist
Taoism

Taoism refers to a variety of related philosophical and religious traditions and concepts. These traditions have influenced East Asia for over two thousand years and some have spread to the West....
site. Not far from Heng Shan, the Hanging Temple
Hanging Temple

The Hanging Temple is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng in the province of Shanxi. The closest city is Datong, 65 kilometers to the northwest....
is located on the side of a cliff and has survived for 1400 years despite earthquakes in the area.

Pagoda of Fugong Temple, in Ying County, is a pagoda built in 1056 during the Liao Dynasty
Liao Dynasty

The Liao Dynasty , 907-1125, also known as the Khitan Empire , was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper....
. It is octagonal with nine levels (five are visible from outside), and at 67 m (220 ft) in height, it is currently the tallest wooden pagoda in the world. It is also the oldest fully-wooden pagoda in China, although many no-longer-existing wooden pagodas have preceded it, and many existing stone and brick pagodas predate it by centuries.

Hukou Waterfall is located in the Yellow River
Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length in the world at 4,845 kilometers ....
on the Shanxi-Shaanxi
Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
border. At 50 meters high it is the second highest waterfall in China.

Dazhai
Dazhai

Dazhai is the name of a mountainous North China village of several hundred farmers in Xiyang, Shanxi, in the People's Republic of China. Dazhai had been an ordinary village until 1960s, when Mao Zedong published his Supreme Directive, "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture" and set up Dazhai as a national agricultural model for all the farmers...
is a village in Xiyang County. Situated in hilly, difficult terrain, it was a holy site during the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the People?s Republic of China was a period of widespread social and political upheaval that led to nation-wide chaos and economic disarray, which would engulf much of Chinese society between 1966 and 1976....
, when it was set out to the entire nation as exemplary of the hardiness of the proletariat
Proletariat

The proletariat is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth other than their sons....
, especially peasant
Peasant

A peasant is an agriculture worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French language pa?sant meaning one from the pays, or rural, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district ....
s.

The Cloud Ridge Caves are shallow caves near Datong
Datong

Datong is a city in the northern Shanxi Province in China, and is located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1090 meters....
. There are over 50,000 carved images and statues of Buddhas and Boddhisatvas within these grottoes
Grottoes

Grottoes may mean:*The plural form of Grotto .or*Grottoes, Virginia - The town named for Grand Caverns....
, ranging from 4 centimeters to 7 meters tall.

Education

Major Post-Secondary institutes in Shanxi include:

Changzhi College
Changzhi College

Changzhi College is a college in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government....
Changzhi Medical College
Changzhi Medical College

Changzhi Medical College is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government....
Datong University
Datong University

Shanxi Datong University is a university in Datong, Shanxi, PRC. It used to be a 2-year normal school to prepare teachers for elementary schools....
Jinzhong College
Jinzhong College

Jinzhong College is a college in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government....
Lvliang Higher College
Lishi District

Lishi District is a District of L?liang, Shanxi, China. The district is a major hub for the coal industry in L?liang as well as an administrative center for the prefecture....
North China University of Science and Technology
North China University of Science and Technology

North China University of Science and Technology is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government....
Shanxi Agricultural University
Shanxi Agricultural University

Shanxi Agricultural University is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government.It is located in the county town of Taigu , a fairly rural area with a population of about 40,000 people....
Shanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government....
Shanxi Medical University
Shanxi Medical University

Shanxi Medical University is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government.External links...
Shanxi Teachers University
Shanxi Teachers University

Shanxi Teachers University also called Shanxi Normal University is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government. Famed teachers include the notable law professor Lin Li....
also called Shanxi Normal University
Shanxi University
Shanxi University

Shanxi University is a university located in Shanxi Province, China. The University was founded in 1902 and is one of the three earliest established national universities in China....
Shanxi University of Finance and Economics
Shanxi University of Finance and Economics

Shanxi University of Finance and Economics is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government....
North China University
Taiyuan Normal University
Taiyuan Normal University

Taiyuan Normal University is a university in Shanxi, People's Republic of China under the authority of the provincial government. Taiyuan Normal University is a teaching University....
Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
Taiyuan University of Science and Technology

Taiyuan University of Science and Technology is a university in Shanxi, PRC under the authority of the provincial government. it is in the city of Taiyuan....
Taiyuan University of Technology
Taiyuan University of Technology

Taiyuan University of Technology is a university in Shanxi, People's Republic of China, under the authority of the provincial government. In 2002 it celebrated its 100th anniversary, although it was originally part of Shanxi University, and didn't become an independent university until much later....
Xinzhou Teachers University
Xinzhou Teachers University

Xinzhou Teachers University is a university in Shanxi, People's Republic of China under the authority of the provincial government....
Yuncheng University
Yuncheng University

Yuncheng University is a university in Shanxi, People's Republic of China under the authority of the provincial government. It was formerly known as Yuncheng Advanced Training College....

Major Secondary Schools in Shanxi include:

Shanxi Experimental Secondary School
Shanxi Experimental Secondary School

Shanxi Experimental Secondary School is recognized as the one of top high schools in Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Located across a street to the provincial government buildings of Shanxi Province in Taiyuan, Shanxi Experimental Secondary School gains the largest budget among all the high schools in Shanxi Province each year f...
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