Datong Coal Mine Group Co Ltd (Tongmei) generates power from the fuel it produces close to the pit it came from. The trial at Tashan industrial park by China's largest coal miner may become a model for the country's changing industry.
The Shanxi Brands China Tour, which visited eight cities last to promote Shanxi quality products around the country, is making its first stop this year in Nanjing, Jiangsu province's capital, April 17-22.
At a conference on quality and safety demonstration areas for Shanxi province's agricultural product exports, in Linyi county, on April 10, the General Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Administration presented seven of the province's national agricultural product demonstration zones certificates, Shanxi Daily reported on April 11.
The 2014 Shanxi Brands China Tour will start in the middle of April in a bid to promote its specialties to a nationwide market and enhance the influence of Shanxi’s brands.
Based on the data of Shanxi's provincial tourism bureau, during the 3-day Tomb-sweeping holiday, from April 5 to 7, Shanxi received 3.61 million tourists from both home and abroad, receiving a total income from tourists of 1.88 billion yuan ($2.9 billion), a year-on-year increase of 20.16 percent.
By the end of this February, the installed power-generating capacity of Shanxi province had reached 58.81 million KW, including 185,000 KW of solar energy.
When Li Wei set off for the United States to study, he probably never thought he'd eventually find his future in the dirty and dangerous coal mines of Shanxi province.
The 2nd Shanxi Seedling & Greening Materials Exhibition kicked off on March 9, in the China Taiyuan Coal Transaction Center, in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, with more than 200 companies from all over the country attending the trade fair.
