Taiyuan, China

   The 14th International Conference on Circulating Fluidized Bed Technology, CFB-14, will  be hosted by the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, and  held by Shanxi Key Laboratory of Efficient and Clean Combustion and Utilization of  Circulating Fluidized Bed, Taiyuan University of Technology, in the city of Taiyuan, China.  

   Taiyuan City, the capital of Shanxi  Province, located in the middle  reaches of the Yellow River in  North China and is surrounded by  hills in its west, north and east. It  is an ancient city with over 2,400  years of history, and was called  “Jinyang” in ancient times.

   In the early founding of China, Taiyuan was an industrial base. After more than 50 years,  it has been built to possess a complete industrial system with various of industries as the  pillars of energy, metallurgy, machinery and chemical, and other industries as textile, light  industry, medicine, electronics, food, building materials, precise instruments, etc.

   Taiyuan City has continental climate in  northern temperate regions, no bitterly cold  days in winter and no broiling hot days in  summer, with a quite temperature difference  between day and night and a long frost-free  period and plenty of sunshine hours in a  year. With a moderate temperature in  summer, it is an agreeable place for people  to visit and stay in summer.