A taxi driver charges his electric vehicle at a charging post in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Oct 19. The city initiated a move last year to replace gasoline and hybrid taxis with purely electric ones. Currently, 97 percent of taxis in the city are purely electric. [Photo by Zhan Yan/Xinhua]New ener...

Shanxi province has decided to build 190,000 electric vehicle charging piles to stimulate the production in the market and promote green travel.The local government will invest more than 5.2 billion yuan ($780.48 million) in constructing the charging facilities in the coming five years. The charging...

Geng Yanbo, the Mayor of Taiyuan City, Shanxi province, met with Curt Hagman, the Supervisor of San Bernardino County, California, and the chairman of the American Shanxi General Chamber of Commerce, Wang Lihong, on August 2, and signed an agreement to establish a sister-city relationship between Ta...

North China's Shanxi province has come up with 10 new policies in 2016 to bring bigger benefits for local farmers, Taiyuan Evening News has reported.The new policies, along with other pre-existing ones, are meant to promote supply-side structural reform and increase farmers' income.The policies are ...