Shanxi University

Shanxi University, established in 1902, is in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, which has a history of 2,500 years. The school itself can be traced back to Sanli College, of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and Jinyang College and Lingde College, of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). In its early period, the school worked on integrating Chinese culture and Western culture and the arts and sciences. It had great flexibility in its management and advanced educational ideas, and was a cradle of higher education in China and a crucial center of culture, science, and education in Shanxi province for more than 100 years. The campus covers 174 hectares, with 1,100,000 square meters of office and classroom space, and has two parts: a north part characterized by an elegant, traditional design, and a southern one with stylish modern buildings. It has at least 500-million yuan ($80.5 million) worth of teaching and research equipment and the library contains 3.62 million books and 2,535 GB e-boo...