Shanxi, referred to as "Jin" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC). Taiyuan, the provincial capital, is located in North China, bordering Hebei in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Henan in the south and Inner Mongolia in the north.

3. The terrain of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram inclined from northeast to southwest, and it is a typical mountain plateau covered with loess, with high terrain in northeast and low terrain in southwest. The interior of the plateau is undulating and the valleys are vertical and horizontal. The landforms are mountains, hills, terraces and plains, and the mountainous area accounts for 80. 1% of the total area. Shanxi province spans the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the rivers belong to the self-produced outflow system. Shanxi Province is located in the hinterland of the mid-latitude zone and belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate.