The Department of Finance of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region reports that it helped a threatened ecological area in the years 2013 - 2015, by spending 10.64 billion yuan ($1.64 billion) on the area.
The city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia set up an online steel trade site recently, as a steel industry innovation, the first of its kind in the region.
This is a breakthrough for the region in merging medicine development and the Internet-Plus for a complete medicine industry chain and it brings about 500 jobs for locals.
Some banners (counties) in Inner Mongolia cover a vast area and have a scattered population, inconvenient transportation, and backward medical and health services so the region has come up with a mobile medical service system, using vehicles with the necessary equipment.
When the 18th Inner Mongolia International Agricultural Expo came to a close in the Inner Mongolia International Exhibition Center, in the city of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, on March 18, it had attracted 400 enterprises and about 50,000 visitors with a turnover of 470 million yuan, and 8 million yuan in income for the companies.
The city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia saw hundreds of people turning out for evening run under the fluorescent lighting at a grassland park to celebrate Earth Hour, on March 19.
The city of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia held a cloud-computing industry conference, on March 17, chaired by Di Ruiming, the executive vice mayor and a municipal Party standing committee member, to gather reports on progress in the city's cloud-computing project.
The city of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia opened its Earthquake Science Museum, on March 17, thanks to the seismology bureau of the city's Yuquan district.
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.