China's raw milk shortage in December has turned into a severe challenge for the country's dairy farms this year, as most struggle to get forage crops sufficient to boost productivity, industry insiders said.
China's first direct coal-to-oil project, operated by the country's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group, produced 866,000 tons of oil products last year.
Experts of the Ministry of Environmental Protection's Environment and Engineering Appraisal Center recently held a meeting and approved a report on the environmental impact of the Sanmenxia-Jingmen section of the Mengxi-Huazhong coal transportation railway project connecting the west area of Inner Mongolia and central China.
China had 7,839 microcredit firms by the end of 2013, which made 227 billion yuan ($37 billion) in new loans last year, according to the central bank.
In 2013, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region started or resumed the construction of 1,241 industrial projects, each with an investment of at least 100 million yuan ($16.54 million).
Manzhouli customs authorities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said that Manzhouli port handled $ 270 million worth of exported agricultural products in 2013, a year on year increase of 12.5 percent, just below its record in 2011.
France's Total SA has received approval from the Chinese government to invest $4 billion in a coal chemical project in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
More than 100 scholars, officials, and designers from home and abroad gathered in Hohhot over the weekend to explore tourism development in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
A bullet train departed Hohhot East Railway Station for Ulanqab marking the start of high-speed rail services using Inner Mongolia’s first newly-laid high-speed railway on Aug 3.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region, during which various celebrations are planned to showcase its prosperity and ethnic diversity.