China's Top 500 Private Companies List for 2013, which was published on Oct 28, has eight private Shanxi companies on it, mainly in the coke and steel business.
The vice-governor of Shanxi province, Wang Yixin, had a meeting with the Australian ambassador to China, Sun Fang'an, on Oct 28, in Taiyuan, Shanxi's capital.
The Taiyuan Stainless Steel Industrial Park, in the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi province, was recently added to a list of 20 State-level cyclic transformation demonstration pilots.
Despite the cold climate, people from all over the country are keen on "City Wall Tourism" in Datong, Shanxi province, as a result of the city-wall management office’s advocacy.
The village of Shangzhuang, in Shanxi province, has been doing repair work on three seriously damaged sets of housing dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) for more than two months now, spending 2 million yuan ($328,600) on a project sponsored by the Cultural Relics Department.
Yingxian county, in Shanxi province, has been trying to promote its ceramics and local brands recent years and it recently paid off when it received a Chinese "Geographical Indications Trademark" for its products, on Oct 26.
