Shanxi Province is situated in the middle of the Yellow River valley, Its location west of the Taihang Mountains gives the province its name, Shanxi, meaning "west of the mountain." Shanxi province is in the Bohai Rim Economic Development Zone in north China, covers an area of 156,000 square km.
Shanxi abounds in tourism resources. Famous spots include the Yunguang Caves at Datong City in the north, Wutai Mountain, a sacred place of Buddhism in the central part, and the falls at Hukou in the south, the only waterfall on the Yellow River.
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.
Statistics show that Shanxi now preserves a total of 31,401 unmovable cultural relics of different kinds. They comprise 2,639 ruins of ancient monuments, 1,666 ancient graves, 18,118 old buildings and memorial structures of historic interest, 300 grottoes and temples, 360 sites bearing ancient vertebrate fossils, 6,852 sites with stone inscriptions and 1,466 old revolutionary sites and memorial buildings. There are 12,345 painted sculptures in these old buildings and memorial structures of historic interest and 26,751 square meters of murals in old temples.
Shanxi province lies in the temperate zone. It has the semi-humid and semi-drought climate, with a continental monsoon. The temperature is lower. And the rainfall is small. It has a long winter and summer is not hot. The annual average temperature is 2—14 °C. The yearly average rainfall is 350-700mm.
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No. |
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Telephone |
Fax? /? E-mail? /? http |
Address / Postcode |
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1.???????? |
SHANXI UNIVERSITY???????? |
7011027
7011644 |
7011644
E-mail:[email protected] http://www.sxu.edu.cn |
Wuchenglu
TAIYUAN 030006 |
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2.???????? |
TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY |
6018290
6014145
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6041142
E-mail:[email protected]
http://www.tyut.edu.cn |
No.79 Yingzexi Dajie TAIYUAN 030024 |
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3.???????? |
TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY???????? |
3366127 |
3366628
E-mail：[email protected]
http://www.sxtyu.com |
No.2 Jia, Balingbeijie, TAIYUAN 030009 |
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4.???????? |
SHANXI TEACHERS' UNIVERSITY |
2051083
2051084 |
2051083
E-mail:[email protected]
http://www.sxtu.edu.cn |
No.1, Gongyuan Street
LINFEN 041004 |
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5.???????? |
TAIYUAN TEACHERS' COLLEGE |
4120436 |
4120436
E-mail:[email protected]
http://www.tysy.net |
No.189 Nanneihuanjie
TAIYUAN 030012 |
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6.???????? |
SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY |
6288221
6286609
6287289 |
6288303
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.sxau.com |
Taigu County,
SHANXI 030801 |
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7.???????? |
SHANXI COLLEGE OF TRADITONAL CHINESE MEDICINE |
2272240 |
2272240
E-mail:[email protected]
E-mail:[email protected]
http://www.sxtem.com |
No.169JinciRood
TAIYUAN
SHANXI 030024 |
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8.???????? |
TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
6998162 |
6998277
E-mail:[email protected]
http://www.tyust.edu.cn |
No.66 Waliu Rd.,
TAIYUAN 030024 |
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9.???????? |
SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY |
4690346 |
4690346
E-mail:[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.sxmu.edu.cn |
NO.56 Xinjian South Rd.
Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030001 |
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10.????? |
NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA |
3922084 |
3923386
E-mail:[email protected]
http://www.ncit.edu.cn |
Pobox 3 TAIYUAN
SHANXI 030051 |
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11.????? |
SHANXI? UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS |
7666895 |
7666749
E-mail: [email protected]_sx.cn
http://www.sxufe.edu.cn |
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City Code of Shanxi Province：
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Taiyuan：0351
Linfen：0357 |
???????? Taigu：???? 0354
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(China Scholarship Council December 4, 2008)