Around 227,000 tons of rare earth products were bought and sold through China's first national rare earth trading platform in 2015, up more than fivefold from the amount in its inaugural year of 2014.
Even though temperatures in the city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, fell as low as - 47 C (- 52 F), on Jan 19, China's coldest day this winter, some armed soldiers in a frontier detachment were busy making use of the inclement weather to continue with their training.
The city of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region had a flight trial run at its new Jining Airport, on Jan 19.
The city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region held a program, on Jan 14, the first of its kind, where hundreds of elderly people could put on a performance to mark this year's Spring Festival, China's most important holiday, which comes on Feb 8.
A startup company in the city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, in the hi-tech industrial development zone, says it's working hard to find new ways to combine ethnic culture and the Internet to bring great changes to the grasslands music industry and promote Inner Mongolian culture.
The Health and Family Planning Commission of Inner Mongolia says it wants to push the idea of "green medicine" and the region's traditional Chinese medicine for disease prevention, so it plans to combine its TCM and health services with tourism and create a health and tourism brand.
The China Low-carbon Industry Investment Center, in Beijing, announced the beginning of work on an "Ordos- Chinese culture city" in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, on Jan 17.
When Inner Mongolia's first green agriculture and livestock products trade fair, in Beijing, came to an end on Jan 18, it had seen a trade volume worth 2.79 million yuan ($423,421), and contracts worth 65 million yuan.
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.