(2002 est. pop. 5.9 million). Ningxia, with the official name of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is located in northwest China and covers an area of 51,800 square kilometers. Ningxia borders on Gansu in the east, south, and west; on Mongolia in the...

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Ningxia has defined the priorities in industrial development and proposed to take measures to increase industrial investments to RMB96.0 billion by 2010 and build the province into an energy/ heavy chemical industry base in the western region of China. In the "Outline...

To the Editor: Ningxia is the smallest provincial autonomous region on the Loess Plateau in central China, with a population of [approximately equal to] 5.5 million persons composed of 35 ethnic and various religious groups. The natural environmental conditions and socioreligious ethnic status...

China is considering halting efforts to make oil from coal due to concerns about the expense and energy demands, a state news agency on Sunday quoted an official as saying.China is hoping to ease its rising dependence on imported oil by promoting alternative energy sources...

China has suffered a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, a news report said Saturday, as experts tried to determine whether a Chinese man died of the disease in 2003, two years before the country...