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Shanxi
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Location:
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Situated along the middle
reaches of the Yellow River in the western
part of the region known as North China |
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Area:
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156,000 square kilometers |
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Climate:
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It gases a mild continental
climate with four distinct seasons awash
in sunlight. The annual average temperature
ranges from 4¡æ to 14¡æ
and annual precipitation from 400 mm
to 650 mm. The frost-free season ranges
from 120 to more than 220 days. |
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provincial capital:
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Taiyuan
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Population:
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32.97millions (March 2001)
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Ethnic groups:
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Han,Hui,Mongol,Man,etc
34 ethnic groups in Shanxi. |
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Major Cities:
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Pingyao,
Datong |
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Agriculture:
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Shanxi has 3,656,500 hectares
of arable land, 23 percent of its area,
The agricultural economy is based on
farming, supplemented rice,wheat, barley,
sorghum, potato, sweet poato,buckwheat,broom
corn millet and beans grow in profusion.
Cash crops include cotton tobacco, beets,
vegetable, oil-bearing plants and hemp.
Also to be found are apples, walnuts
and dates and precious plants used on
Chinese traditional medicine such as
Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus baicalletsis.
Pigs, sheep, chicken, rabbits, cows,
donkeys horses, mules, silkworm and
bees are also raised. |
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Industry:
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Over the last 40 plus
years, Shanxi has established a basic
industrial system comprising a great
variety of industries. Currently more
than 12,000 industrial enterprises are
in operation. Coal and electric power
form the backbone of industry of Shanxi. |
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