Shanxi province organized 16 local companies to exhibit some 220 kinds of products at the 24th China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair that opened in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, on July 5.
Shanxi exhibits attracted many businesspeople to the 10th APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Technology Conference and Fair in Shenyang with nine projects worth 231.2 million yuan ($34.84 million) agreed during the event held from June 27 to 29.
A total of 10.1 billion cubic meters of water, which would fill one fourth of the Three Gorges Reservoir and be worth 103.46 billion yuan ($15.59 billion), has been conserved by forests in Shanxi province.
Shanxi Top Glory Tech, a young high-tech company engaged in biometric identification technologies, sees great potential in finger vein recognition, a method of biometric identification that matches image of the veins in an individual's finger to previously obtained data.
At one time, farmers on the Loess Plateau in Shanxi province could only plant crops they knew were sturdy enough to resist the effects of frequent droughts and thrive in the area's thin soil.
An artificial intelligence database industrial project supported by Chinese internet giant Baidu was settled in Shanxi Transformation and Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Zone, on June 28.
More than 350 small and medium-sized enterprises carried out business matching with 60 service institutions at a provincial service matching event for SMEs in Taiyuan on June 27.
