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Taiyuan's primary, secondary, and tertiary industries were worth 3.9 billion yuan, 105.2 billion yuan, and 132.2 billion yuan respectively in 2007. [50] Shanxi produces a quarter of China's coal, and Taiyuan is the location of the China Taiyuan Coal Transaction Center, which began trading in 2012. [51]
After the end of the Central Shanxi campaign, the majority of the province had fallen into the communist hands, and the nationalists were left with only two cities in entire Shanxi: Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and Datong. In order to take control of the entire province, the communists decided to launch the Taiyuan campaign in mid-October 1948.
The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan [4] was a major battle fought in 1937 between China and Japan named for Taiyuan (the capital of Shanxi province), which lay in the 2nd Military Region.
There are countless military-related industries in Shanxi due to its geographic location and history as the former base of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre , one of China's three satellite launch centers, is located in the middle of Shanxi with China's largest stockpile of nuclear ...
The Shansi Imperial University at Taiyuan was founded in 1901 with funds from the indemnity levied against Shansi for the massacre of the Christians by the Boxers. [7] During the first decade of the university its chancellor was the Baptist missionary Timothy Richard who also headed the Western College.
Bingzhou covered most of present-day Shanxi and parts of Hebei and Inner Mongolia. During the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220) Bingzhou's capital was designated in Jinyang County (晉陽縣; present-day Jinyuan District , Taiyuan , Shanxi), and the regions under its jurisdiction included most of present-day Shanxi, northern Shaanxi and parts of ...
Pages in category "History of Taiyuan" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... 2009 Shanxi mine blast; T. 2013 Taiyuan attack; Taiyuan massacre;
Taiyuan Commandery (Chinese: 太原郡) was a commandery of China from the Warring States period to Tang dynasty.It was located in modern central Shanxi province.. The commandery was established by the Qin state in 248 BC, after Qin general Meng Ao attacked Taiyuan, then part of the State of Zhao, and annexed 37 Zhao cities including Yuci (榆次), Xincheng (新城) and Langmeng (狼孟). [1]