DATONG, China — The walls and ceiling of the Nanshan mine shimmer black, carved straight into a 200 million-year-old coal seam running 1,300 feet underground. Black veins of Jurassic-era coal deposits ...

China consumes half the world's coal, and Shanxi Province is China's leading producer. It's also piloting the country's "energy revolution." A coal-fired power station belches smoke in Datong in ...

BEIJING, May 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 26, China Economic Information Service (CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency released the Tourism Development Index of Datong, China in the famous historical and ...

This article is the fourth in a series about Liang Sicheng, one of China’s best loved architects. Parts one, two, and three can be found here. On Nov. 18 last year, the western city wall of Datong, an ...

Tourists visit the Xuankong Temple in Hunyuan County, north China's Shanxi Province, June 9, 2026. Datong, home to the Yungang Grottoes and dubbed a living history of Chinese architecture, has in ...