Going Green
Shanxi University provides well-equipped teaching facilities and elegant studying environments. The campus, covering a geographic area of 2450 mu and a floor space of 1030000 square meters, is awarded the titles of "Gardenlike Unit" and "Green University" by the provincial government . The south campus now appears more modern appearance and complements the traditional north part of campus, each enhancing the other's beauty. With a collection of 2.95 million copies of books and 172 thousand electronic books in its libraries, Shanxi University houses teaching and researching instruments with a total value of more than 200 million yuan RMB. The university also pioneered on campus Internet service subscription among the universities throughout the province.
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“People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
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The universal blue
And local green suggest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)