Shanxi province’s finance department spent 130 million yuan in 2012, on its development zones to take advantage of any and all industrial opportunities.
Growth in the CPI of Shanxi province has been lower than the national average since 2010, for three years running. According to a Shanxi provincial government report at a CPI conference, CPI growth for 2010 was 3.0 percent, for 2011, 5.2 percent, and for 2012, it was 2.5 percent.
Shanxi province’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has reported that, in 2012, the Shanxi Coal Transportation and Sales (Group) Co had 185.02 billion yuan in operating revenue
The Taiyuan Customs office, in Shanxi province, has reported that foreign trade reached a historic high in 2012, with total import and export value at $15.04 billion, a year-on-year growth of 2 percent. Of that, exports totaled $7.01 billion, an increase of 29.4 percent, while imports hit $8.03 billion, down 13.9 percent.
Shanxi’s Coking Coal Group has become one of the “Top 10 environmental protection enterprises” in the province, the provincial Environment and Resource Conservation Association announced, on Jan 14.
Shanxi province’s Guoxin Energy Development (Group) Co signed a strategic agreement with China Resources, on Jan 12 in Taiyuan, Shanxi’s capital, to build on their already established cooperation in the area of automobile fuel.
Shanxi provincial leaders held a meeting with the heads of State-owned commercial banks, in Beijing, on Jan 9, to discuss ways to help Shanxi explore its opportunities, increase financial support, and continue its industrial transformation.
According to the latest data released by the state energy administration, China has become the world's largest energy producer by the end of 2012. The total installed electricity capacity was 1.14 billion kilowatts, including 249 million of hydropower capacity which was the world's largest.
The Shanxi provincial science and technology bureau has reported that three organizations got approval recently as national high-tech enterprise promoters.