(1996 est. pop. 34.6 million). The northern Chinese province of Shaanxi (Shensi, Shanxi) borders on Gansu and Ningxia in the west; on Inner Mongolia in the west; on Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei, following the course of the Huang (Yellow) River, in the...

Shaanxi (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 陕西; traditional Chinese: 陝西; pinyin: Shǎnxī; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a north-central province of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess...

Yanan is a city held in high regard by the Communist Party, because of its historic significance as the 1937-47 headquarters of Mao Tse Tung and other party notables. Nevertheless, economic conditions in Yunan are poor, and foreign investment is lacking. THE town...

In February 1999, Shaanxi provincial government reorganized local Yanchang Petroleum and Mine Management Bureau, Yah'an Refining plant and Yulin Refining plant into Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Industry Group Corporation that was directly controlled by Shaanxi provincial government. Shaanxi provincial government planned at that time...

Police have detained eight leaders in the country's unauthorized Protestant church movement on charges of violating rules on religious activity, a Texas-based monitoring group said Wednesday.The detentions came earlier this month in the northern provinces of Shaanxi and Shandong, the China Aid Association reported.Pastors Zhou...

Police in northern China have detained three men for the deaths of two women whose corpses were to be sold as "ghost brides" to accompany dead men in the afterlife, state media said.Authorities indicated that the killings last year were not isolated cases, the Legal...