The oldest existing building in the city is the Temple of Goddess (聖母殿) inside the Jin Ci Complex; it was originally built in 1023 AD and reconstructed in 1102 AD.
The city had been deliberately flooded several times: 453 BC, 969 AD, and was destroyed by war in 1125 AD.
During Ming Dynasty, the city wall was reconstructed in 1568 AD.
Colleges and Universities
Shanxi University (山西大学) (founded 1902)
Taiyuan University of Technology (太原理工大学)
Taiyuan Normal University (太原师范学院)
North China University of Science and Technology (华北工学院)
Shanxi Agricultural University (山西农业大学)
Shanxi Medical University (山西医科大学)
Shanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (山西中医学院)
A total of 30,000 mu (2,000 hectares) of sloping farmland in Jinyang was reforested last year, in line with the quota assigned the county under the national tuigeng huanlin ('returning arable land to forest') policy.
Last year, Jinyang county government raised no more than CNY 5.85 million, which was not even enough to cover the salaries of the county's 3,000 government employees (including 1,200 schoolteachers).
According to the Jinyang Red Cross Association, not one of the Public Health Bureau's 253 health personnel is a fully qualified graduate of a medical university, and only 25 are graduates of senior vocational schools.
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