Shanxi is home west of the Taihang named. Spring and Autumn Period, most of the region is Jin so referred Jin; early Warring States Period, Han, Zhao, Wei three points Jin, therefore, also known as "Shanxi". The province's total area of 156.7 thousand square kilometers, with a total population of 3593.3 million, exempted 11 prefecture-level cities, 119 counties, cities, districts. The  Shanxi terrain is mostly mountainous and hilly, mountainous areas account for about 80% of the total area of the province. East of the Taihang Mountains, West Luliang Mountain, west, south of the Yellow River and the Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces, autonomous regions bounded by the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan called "table mountains and rivers.

Abundant mineral resources in Shanxi Province, more than 120 kinds of minerals found underground, where proven reserves of 70 kinds. Coalbed methane, bauxite, perlite, gallium, zeolite, rutile (including anatase), magnesium salt, Glauber's salt, potassium feldspar, ilmenite, limestone, feldspar, gypsum, cobalt, copper and other mineral reserves in the provinces (cities, districts) in the forefront. Currently, Shanxi identify coal resources and reserves of 267.379 billion tons, accounting for about 20% of the identification of the coal reserves, and therefore there is a coal town, "said.