Agreements for 21 investment projects have been signed in Yangquan, Shanxi province, with total investment amounting to 12.39 billion yuan ($1.84 billion).
Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc will partner with Shanxi University and Phoenix, a company focusing on energy technology, in establishing a cloud system to upgrade the coal industry in Shanxi.
Shanxi province established 58 work stations and introduced 70 academics during 2016, according to a senior official of the Shanxi Association for Science and Technology.
The government of Shuozhou held conferences on April 17 and 18 in Beijing to attract more Shuozhou-born entrepreneurs and people with professional skills to return home and foster local innovation and entrepreneurship.
Pingyao has invited local-born entrepreneurs and people with professional skills working outside the county to return and help boost the local economy at a meeting held on April 3.
