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.

No.	Institutions		Telephone	Fax? /? E-mail? /? http		Address / Postcode
1.????????	SHANXI UNIVERSITY????????		7011027 7011644	7011644 E-mail:zhj@sxu.edu.cn http://www.sxu.edu.cn		Wuchenglu TAIYUAN 030006
2.????????	TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY		6018290 6014145	6041142 E-mail:changlili@tyut.edu.cn http://www.tyut.edu.cn		No.79 Yingzexi Dajie TAIYUAN 030024
3.????????	TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY????????		3366127	3366628 E-mail：tydxcym@163.com http://www.sxtyu.com		No.2 Jia, Balingbeijie, TAIYUAN 030009
4.????????	SHANXI TEACHERS' UNIVERSITY		2051083 2051084	2051083 E-mail:gullon@163.com http://www.sxtu.edu.cn		No.1, Gongyuan Street LINFEN 041004
5.????????	TAIYUAN TEACHERS' COLLEGE		4120436	4120436 E-mail:sdsywsb@public.ty.sx.cn http://www.tysy.net		No.189 Nanneihuanjie TAIYUAN 030012
6.????????	SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY		6288221 6286609 6287289	6288303 E-mail: chi-hao-99@yahoo.com http://www.sxau.com		Taigu County, SHANXI 030801
7.????????	SHANXI COLLEGE OF TRADITONAL CHINESE MEDICINE		2272240	2272240 E-mail:zhaoxueli72@tom.com E-mail:sxgjzx88@163.com http://www.sxtem.com		No.169JinciRood TAIYUAN SHANXI 030024
8.????????	TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY		6998162	6998277 E-mail:fao@tyust.edu.cn http://www.tyust.edu.cn		No.66 Waliu Rd., TAIYUAN 030024
9.????????	SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY		4690346	4690346 E-mail:sydwsc@public.ty.sx.cn sydwsc@163.com http://www.sxmu.edu.cn		NO.56 Xinjian South Rd. Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030001
10.?????	NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA		3922084	3923386 E-mail:Lvin@edu.cn http://www.ncit.edu.cn		Pobox 3 TAIYUAN SHANXI 030051
11.?????	SHANXI? UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS		7666895	7666749 E-mail: sxcjdxys@public.ty_sx.cn http://www.sxufe.edu.cn		No.696 Wucheng Rd., TAIYUAN 030006
City Code of Shanxi Province：		Taiyuan：0351  Linfen：0357			???????? Taigu：???? 0354

(China Scholarship Council December 4, 2008)