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Twenty-six people are killed and 63 others are injured in a fire at an office building in Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
2023-11-16

A Chinese court sentences Zhang Zhongsheng, the former Vice Mayor of Lüliang, Shanxi, to death. Zhongsheng was convicted of accepting bribes totaling 1.04 billion yuan (US$160 million).
2018-03-28

A 56-vehicle pile-up on the G5 Beijing–Kunming Expressway in China's northern Shanxi province, leaves at least 17 people dead and 37 others injured.
2016-11-22

Torrential precipitation and widespread flash floods from an extratropical cyclone resulted in at least 78 deaths over North China and nearby regions.
2016-07-21

Luo Huining leaves his position as party chief of Qinghai and becomes party chief of Shanxi province, replacing Wang Rulin.
2016-06-30

Two high-ranking officials in China's Shanxi province, Chen Chuanping and Nie Chunyu, are placed under a corruption investigation by Chinese Communist Party authorities. Chen Chuanping was the CPC party chief of Taiyuan, the provincial capital. The president of China Resources Power, Wang Yujun, is also detained.
2014-08-26

The death toll in Wangjialing coal mine's flood in Shanxi rises to 28 after the recovery of another corpse.
2010-04-10

The death toll in Shanxi's flooded Wangjialing coal mine reaches 25.
2010-04-9

114 miners trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week in Shanxi, China, are rescued.
2010-04-4

A series of severe sandstorms hit north China, affecting the regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia and the provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei.
2010-03-20