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Nature Attractions In Shanxi

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Shanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is 晋 , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn period. The name Shanxi means West of the Mountains, a reference to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains. Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the north and is made up mainly of a plateau bounded partly by mountain ranges. The capital of the province is Taiyuan.
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  • 2. Salt Lake in Yuncheng County Yuncheng
    Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride , a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater, where it is the main mineral constituent. The open ocean has about 35 grams of solids per litre, a salinity of 3.5%. Salt is essential for life in general, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and salting is an important method of food preservation. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 8,000 years ago, when people living in the area of present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts; a salt-works in China date...
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  • 3. Mian Mountain Jiexiu
    Mount Mian, also known by its Chinese name Mianshan, is a mountain in the town of Mianshan in Jiexiu, Jinzhong, in central Shanxi Province in north China. Its official scenic area opened in the year 2000 and covers 75 km2 , with about 400 attractions grouped into 14 tourist areas.
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  • 4. Two Dragon Mountain Taiyuan
    The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident , were student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement . The protests were forcibly suppressed after Chinese Premier Li Peng declared martial law. In what became known in the West as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with automatic rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square. The number of civilian deaths has been estimated variously from 180 to 10,454.Set against a backdrop of rapid economic development and social changes in post-Mao Zedong China, the protests reflected anxiet...
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  • 6. Park of Monuments Taiyuan
    This is a list of the nationally protected areas of China. There are many forms of protected areas in China. Based on their relative importance, each type of protected area can be further graded into two to three levels . Nevertheless, the highest rank for pocket nature reserve , no-hunting area, no-fishing area, no-logging area, wild medicinal material resources conservation area, crop germplasm resources conservation area, forest tree germplasm resources conservation area or source water protection area is practically restricted to provincial level. The local government at county level is also responsible for the delimitation and declaration of basic farmland protection area and basic grassland. Qinling National Botanical Garden, said to be the world's largest , was opened to the public ...
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  • 14. Yingze Park Taiyuan
    Yingze Park is located in downtown Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. It was opened to the public on June 1, 1957 and covers 63.28 hectares including its lake. It has over 390,000 ornamental plants in more than 10 gardens. Near the east gate is the Jin Merchant Museum, in the style of an ancient guild hall. In the park's center is the Cangjing Building, an 800-year-old structure transported from the Dongda Temple in Taigu. The north gate of the park features an ornate archway called Beauty of Taiyuan based on the style of the Yonghe Lama Temple in Beijing. The park also has recreational boating, arcade games, and children's playgrounds.
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  • 15. Tianlong Mountain Taiyuan
    Tianlong is a flying dragon in Chinese mythology, a star in Chinese astrology, and a proper name.
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