Short for Shanxi Province, Shanxi Province

Shanxi, referred to as "Jin" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Taiyuan, the capital, located in North China. Shanxi Province is an inland province in China, located on the east bank of the middle reaches of the Yellow River and on the Loess Plateau west of the North China Plain. East of Taihang Mountain, adjacent to Hebei. The west and south are separated by the Yellow River, facing Shaanxi and Henan; It is bounded by the Great Wall in the north and borders Inner Mongolia.

History of Shanxi Province

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the three main forces of the Eighth Route Army advanced into Shanxi and established anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines. In Shanxi, there are Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei anti-Japanese base areas, Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan anti-Japanese base areas and Shanxi-Sui anti-Japanese base areas. During the Fourteen-year Anti-Japanese War, Shanxi was an important strategic fulcrum of the national anti-Japanese war. Shanxi local party organizations have trained 654.38+500,000 * * party member, and sent 600,000 warm-blooded youths to the Eighth Route Army in the base area.

In April of the 38th year of the Republic of China (1949), Shanxi Province was liberated. In September, Shanxi Provincial People's Government was established.