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	Province View-china.org.cn
		Shanxi Province is situated in the middle of the Yellow River valley, lying between latitude 34°34'-40°44' north and longitude 110°15'-114°32' east.
		The province is especially noted as the "kingdom of coal," with verified reserves amounting to 261.2 billion tons, accounting for one-third of the nation's total.
		The province also encompasses the country's largest temple of martial valor – the Guan Yu Shrine at Xiezhou – and one of the four large whispering buildings in China, the Yingying Pagoda of Pujiu Temple in Yongji County.
	www.china.org.cn /english/features/ProvinceView/156508.htm (1462 words)

	Map of Shanxi Province, CHina
		Taihang, Shanxi is bounded by the provinces of Hebei on the east, Henan on the south, Shaanxi on the west and Inner Mongolia Aut.
		Shanxi is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization of the Chinese Nation.
		Shanxi is famous for its great number of temples, pagodas and frescoes, such as Jinci Temple, Wooden Pagoda in Yingxian County and Guandi Temple in Xiezhou, etc. It is thus reputed as a "Museum of Ancient Arts".
	www.maps-of-china.net /p_shanxi_map.html (204 words)

	Map of China Province - Region, Regional
		Shanxi, situated in the eastern part of the Huangtu Plateau in north China, is one of the cradles of earliest civilization.
		The province borders the Yellow River to the west and the Taihang Mountain to the east.
		Shanxi is famous for its natural resources, among which coal is the most abundant one, and it accounts for one third of China's coal deposits.
	www.cntravel.biz /china_columns/provinces/shanxi.shtml (506 words)

	Shanxi Province / Hotel / Travel / taiyaun / Pingyao Ancient Town / Wutai Mountant
		Shanxi Province, whose name means 'land west of the Taihang Mountain', lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and on the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau.
		Shanxi's allure as a tourist paradise is also attributed to its vibrant cultural scene, which includes a variety of local operas and folk arts and crafts, as well as local delicacies and wheaten refreshments.
		The house, which belonged to a rich and famous Shanxi merchant family, is billed as an emblem of the Shanxi culture that thrived as a result of Burgeoning local commerce.
	www.chinatravelhub.com /REGIONS/061shanxi.htm (1422 words)

	Shaanxi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not to be confused with the neighboring province of Shanxi
		By regular Hanyu Pinyin rules, if tone marks are not written, both Shaanxi and the neighbouring province of Shanxi should be spelled "Shanxi"; the difference is in tone: Shānxī and Shǎnxī.
		Desert in the north along the border with Inner Mongolia, the Loess Plateau in the central part of the province, the Qinling mountains running east to west in the south central part, and subtropical climate south of the Qinling mountains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaanxi_Province (661 words)

	Shanxi Province, China
		Shanxi province, with the abbreviation of Jin for its location to the west of Taihovng Mountain.It accounts for 1.6 per cent of the overall area of the country with more than 156,200 square kilometers at 3436 to 4044 north latitude and 11015 to 114 32 east longitude, which ranks the nineteenth in China.
		Shanxi has a population of 32.036 million that is higher than the average distribution radio in the whole country, among which Han nationality accounts for 90 per cent.
		Shanxi, as one of the birth place of Chinese nationality with long history and traditional culture, has abundant resources and distinctive specialties; especially in the aspects of coal, bauxite and tourist resources.
	www.shanghaifinance.com /attractions/shanxi/shanxi.php (466 words)

	Shanxi Travel Guide: Shanxi Tour, Map, Hotel, Tips, Shanxi China
		Shanxi neighbored on Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia and Autonomous Region.
		The province is also frequently plagued by sandstorms, especially in the spring, so it is often useful to bring along both sunglasses and a hat when visiting.
		Shanxi is one of the birth places of Chinese civilizations with a long history and traditional culture.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/shanxi/index.htm (438 words)

	Shanxi - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shanxi has rich and extensive coal and iron deposits; it supplies as much as one quarter of China's coal.
		Shanxi's strategic position in the northeast made it a center of Communist activity in the 1940s.
		Shanxi Mobile selects CA's Unicenter and eTrust to ensure stability and security of critical operations; Top regional Chinese telecom optimizes service levels while lowering IT costs through automation and consolidation of management tasks.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-shanxi.html (371 words)

	Shanxi
		Shanxi (literally, west of mountain) is named after its location in the west of the Taihang Mountain Range.
		Shanxi, Jin for short, is situated on the middle segment of the Yellow River.
		The land of Shanxi is one of the origins of Chinese civilization, exhibiting evidence of human settlement over a million years ago.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_map/2003-09/24/content_21544.htm (429 words)

	Asia Times
		Economically less important than Guangdong or Beijing, Shanxi has proved itself conducive to the spread of SARS; it could plausibly serve as a springboard for the virus to make inroads into northwestern and northeastern China, which are less socially stable than the areas where SARS infections have been most numerous.
		In Shanxi province's Qingxu county, primary-school classes are suspended and restaurants have closed indefinitely.
		Shanxi constantly declared the spread of SARS to be under effective control, yet the number of cases increased by a factor of 20 in one month.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/ED18Ad01.html (1223 words)

	Shanxi
		Geography: Shanxi Province is in China's Huabei Area and the eastern Huangtu (loess) Plateau.
		Features of educational distribution of the Shanxi population are an increase in the educated population of each level, except primary education (this is because of the decrease in the number of primary school-age children) and decrease in the illiterate and half-illiterate population annually.
		The five-level (province, city, county, township, and village) population and family planning management responsibility system was established in the same year.
	www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/shanxi.htm (2312 words)

	RIGZONE - PetroChina Signs Gas Supply Deal in Shanxi Province
		Shanxi is a large coal producing province, but is heavily polluted due to coal-burning.
		The Shanxi Provincial Government welcomes the signing of the Letter of Intent for its importance in the implementation of the government's environmental policy and plans to use natural gas as clean energy in the Tenth Five-Year Plan period.
		Shanxi Province is currently accelerating the planning and construction of the pipeline branches within the province and gas consumption projects to match the progress of the second Shaanxi-Beijing gas pipeline
	www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=4331 (618 words)

	Shanxi Province travel guide
		Shanxi is in the middle reaches of Huang He (Yellow River).
		After Qin Shihuang unified Chinese states, Shanxi became one of the earliest centres of Chinese culture and civilisation, whose northern area became a defensive bulwark against marauding tribes from the north and west.
		Pinyao, one of the four best-preserved ancient cities in China, is the highlights of Shanxi.
	www.world66.com /asia/northeastasia/china/shanxiprovince (229 words)

	Shanxi Province
		Education: By the end of 1997, there were 42 higher education institutions in Shanxi, with number of student enrolment 71,138 and teachers 8,713; 3,942 secondary schools with number of student enrolment 2.0142 million and teachers 142,051; 39,622 primary schools with number of student enrolment 3.4464 million and teachers 174,055.
		The features of education distribution of Shanxi population are the increase of educated population of each level except primary education (this is because of the decrease of primary school-age children) and decrease of illiterate and half-illiterate population annually.
		In 1981, the total fertility rate was 2.43, then it decreased to 2.1 in 1985 after the practice of “Family Planning Regulation of Shanxi Province.” It returned to the level of 1981 after the readjustment of the Regulation in 1986, was 2.42 in 1990.
	www.cpirc.org.cn /en/30Province1999-shanxi.htm (2208 words)

	China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
		Shanxi Province is situated in the middle of the Yellow River valley, lying between latitude 34034'-40044' north and longitude 110015'-114032' east.
		The province is especially noted as the ¡°kingdom of coal,¡±; with verified reserves amounting to 261.2 billion tons, accounting for one-third of the nation¡¯s total.
		Shanxi has built a complete highway network based on national highways and supplemented by country roads, which connects major industrial enterprises, mines and cash crop production bases with railways and links Shanxi with neighboring provinces.
	www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Shanxi_Province.htm (1417 words)

	Shanxi,Shanxi China,Shanxi China Travel,Shanxi Province,Shanxi China Tour,Shanxi Province China,Shanxi Province ...
		The Shanxi province in China has a lot to offer to the curious traveler eager to glean more about the historical and cultural past of China.
		The Shanxi Province is located towards the west of the Taihang Mountain that form the eastern border of China.
		The southern half of Shanxi is especially significant as this part of China was the home of the erstwhile Qins who played an important role in the unification of China.
	www.holidayschina.com /china-provinces-holidays/shanxi.html (241 words)

	Shanxi Province travel guide - China travel guide, Shanxi China travel services, Shanxi tours
		Shanxi, a province situated on a loess plateau, is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization.
		Shanxi is demarcated by mountains, the Taihang Mountains in the east, the Luliang Mountains in the west, the Hengshan and Wutai mountains in the north, the Zhongtiao Mountains in the south, and the Taiyue Mountains in the center.
		Today the province is still called "the art museum of ancient times," for its splendid Yellow River culture that was developed in the ancient land of Shanxi.
	www.chinaplanner.com /shanxi/index.htm (410 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Shanxi Sinking As Mines Riddle Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Honeycombs of underground mining tunnels have caused one-seventh of the land in Shanxi Province, which produces nearly one-third of the nation's coal, to subside.
		Shanxi is not alone with regard to this problem.
		The province plans to cut the number from 3,800 to approximately 2,000 in five years.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=222550&source=r_science (653 words)

	Shanxi China : General Information and Travel Map of Shanxi Province of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Shanxi, the eastern and western parts are hilly lands.
		Shanxi province has a semi-dry continental monsoon climate in the temperate zone.
		Shanxi abounds in iron ore, there are also copper, sulphur and salt.
	www.muztagh.com /china-information/shanxi (239 words)

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		When reporting on SARS, the Shanxi government regularly used the terms “imported cases” and “locally transmitted cases.” The term “imported cases” referred to those brought from outside of the province; “locally transmitted cases” referred to those in which the virus was transmitted to the patient locally.
		Disease-control workers in Shanxi quickly took measures to fight the spread of the disease, although it was mostly “to mend the fence after the sheep were lost.” On March 9, the chief of the Taiyuan Disease Control Center, Zhao Baoxing, and his team rushed to Beijing.
		Shanxi is still under the SARS shadow, and it is still fighting.This is a battle that must be won.
	www.worldpress.org /article_model.cfm?article_id=1624&dont=yes (2812 words)

	Shanxi Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shanxi is China's biggest coal producer but lacks the transport to distribute it.
		It is a depressed, landlocked area dominated by plateau almost 4,000 feet above sea level.
		Coal, iron ore, and calcium carbide are the province's mineral contributions.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Provinces/Province-Shanxi.html (61 words)

	phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - The province of Shanxi
		As this province is situated in the west of Taihangshan (Mount Taihang) it is called Shanxi (¤s¦è) or west of Mount Taihang.
		In 789BC Zhou King Xuan personally led an expeditionary force trying to crush the aggressive northern neighbours, but he was defeated at the battle of Qian Mu (¤d¯a) in the present day of Shanxi province (¤s¦è¬Ù) and lost a large part of territory to the tribes of Jiang and Rong.
		The northern part of Shanxi province was the key defensive bulward against the northern nomadic tribes.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=3517&t=3501 (406 words)

	Power Technology - Yangcheng Coal-Fired Power Plant, Shanxi, China
		Yangcheng supplies power to the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu as part of China's effort to substitute the transmission of electricity for the transport of coal (the coal-by-wire strategy).
		The new power plant was built on the site of the coal mine, in Shanxi Province, and the electricity generated is transmitted over a 740km, high-voltage transmission line to Jiangsu.
		Shanxi Province, China's major coal producer, is working on becoming the country's largest electricity provider.
	www.power-technology.com /projects/yangcheng (646 words)

	Tour in Shanxi
		The province is covered mostly by ranges of hills; the western regions border the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, and exhibit the characteristic rolling hills of yellow earth, heavily eroded by rain and flash floods.
		The south of the province, nestling in the bend of the Yellow River is known to be one of the ancient cultural centers of China.
		Most travellers miss out Shanxi province, as they head from the many sights of the capital in Beijing to the former Tang capital at Xi'an, most noted for the Terracotta warriors of Qinshihuang.
	www.ess.uci.edu /~oliver/old/shanxi.html (1216 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Rivers Run Black in Shanxi
		They were in the province to ensure the Law on the Prevention of Environmental Pollution from Solid Waste and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution were being properly implemented.
		Shanxi's problems, said Sheng, can be attributed to two main causes the lack of a pollution control scheme for decades, and the unsustainable approach of local economic development.
		The NPC passed legislation in March mandating that the amount of sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide discharged in the country must drop by 10 per cent by the end of 2010 compared with the levels at the end of last year.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/574875/rivers_run_black_in_shanxi/?source=r_science (946 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		BACKGROUD Background of Air Pollution control Project in Shanxi Province: Located in the middle of China, Shanxi province has an area of about 0.15 million square kilometers, taking about 1.6% of the total land area of the country.
		According to the plan, Shanxi Province will restructure its industrial framework, coalesce electricity factories with power stations, provide central heating, taking off sulfur dioxide, prevent and treat pollution in smoke-forbidden area, purify the coal gas in the charred factories and treat the industrial dust in architectural materials.
		Firstly, Shanxi Province is one of the national key areas for air pollution control in China.
	www.rechnungshof.gv.at /veranstaltungen/fileadmin/downloads/China_air_text.doc (1339 words)

	Shanxi - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Shanxi, also Shansi or Shan-hsi, province in northern China, bordered to the east by Hebei Province, to the south by Henan Province, to the west by...
		Taiyuan, also Taiyüan or T'ai-yüan, formerly Yang-ch'ü, city in northern China, capital of Shanxi Province, on the Fen River.
		The Mahayana Buddhism which spread throughout East Asia in the early centuries ad was propagated through China, and its architecture was basically...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Shanxi.html (92 words)

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