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  TaiyuanEnglish
Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, called Jinyang in ancient times or Bing for short, is an ancient city...
Xiaodian District is located in the southeast of Taiyuan proper, with flat and......
Taiyuan High- teeh Industry Development Zone is a state- level high- tech zone......
www.taiyuan.gov.cn /tygovwww/english/index-eng.htm   (126 words)

  
  Taiyuan --'Metropolis of Cathy'
Ideally situated in the Taiyuan Basin in the central part of the province, it is bordered by the Taihang Mountains in the east and the Luliang Mountains in the west.
With its mountains and its river, Taiyuan was an important military town for which war strategists of various dynasties contested.
This monastery is located north of Qiantou Village in Pingyao County to the south of Taiyuan.
www.china.org.cn /english/TCC/41690.htm   (975 words)

  
  Taiyuan - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Taiyuan (Chinese: 太原; Pinyin: Tàiyuán; Wade-Giles: T'ai-yüan) is a prefecture-level city in China, capital of the Shanxi province.
It was renamed Taiyuan in the Qin Dynasty.
Taiyuan is located between 111°30' East and 113°09' North, at the northern end of the Loess Plateau.
en.wikilib.com /wiki/Taiyuan   (335 words)

  
 Taiyuan, Regent Tour China
Taiyuan, in the central part of Shanxi Province, is one of China's 23 metropolises.
Taiyuan is one of the traffic hubs of North China, with more than 50 domestic flight routes and flights at least every week to and from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other large cities in China.
Taiyuan was one of the important cities in commerce and in the handicraft industry, and it was a city of strategic significance.
www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/tyn/tyn-glance-new.htm   (1114 words)

  
 Taiyuan
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) is situated in Kelan County, the northwest part of Shanxi Province, 280 km by road from Taiyuan City.
The head office of the launch center is located in Taiyuan City.
Taiyuan Airport is 300 km by road from the launch site and can accept jumbo aircraft.
www.astronautix.com /sites/taiyuan.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Taiyuan, Shanxi, China Tour
Taiyuan is now a major industrial city in northern China, close to major iron and coal reserves.
The founder of the Tang dynasty, Li Yuan, used Taiyuan as a base for the peasant uprising that overthrew the Sui regime in the early 7th century.
Taiyuan was one of the centers of the nationalistic Boxer Rebellion around 1900, when all the foreign missionaries and their families were put to death on the order of the provincial governor.
www.chinatour.com /attraction/taiyuan.htm   (754 words)

  
 China tours: Taiyuan, Shanxi
Taiyuan is the provincial capital of Shanxi Province.
As a whole, Taiyuan covers an area of 7 thousand square kilometers and has a population of 2.67 million.
Taiyuan's main topography is download, the plain only occupies five percent of the area.
www.toptrip.cc /destination/city/sx_taiyuan.htm   (208 words)

  
 Taiyuan
Taiyuan is located in the center of Shanxi, close to the Fen River, about 450km (280 miles) southwest of Beijing.
It lies at the heart of some of the richest coal and iron ore fields in the world and is the industrial powerhouse of the region.
More used as a stopover between Beijing and Xian or as a starting point for visits to the north of Shanxi, Taiyuan’s history is one of repeated occupation by invaders from the north and as a battleground for intra-Chinese conflicts.
www.chinaetravel.com /city/c006.html   (122 words)

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