A group of Taiwan tourism, exhibition and conference companies came to Shanxi's Taiyuan city on July 31 to encourage companies on the Chinese mainland to go to Taiwan for exhibition,conference and tourism activities.
Foreign trade in Datong, Shanxi province, totaled $270 million in the first half of this year, an increase of 18.2 percent over the same period last year.
Shanxi will coordinate every effort to promote cooperation in five regional economies in the second half of 2014, according to the National Development and Reform Commission on July 28.
A new Pingyao Chamber of Commerce was launched at Taiyuan, Shanxi province. Its first-round international investments fair has many contracts signed with foreign investors.
Shanxi's first coke-oven gas-to-natural gas project went into operation on July 10, marking a new era of coke-oven gas comprehensive utilization in Shanxi.
The total export and import volume of Shanxi province was 38.71 billion yuan ($6.2 billion) in the first half of 2014, a 16 percent decline from last year.
