Linfen

Linfen is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shanxi region, People's Republic of China, circumscribing Shaanxi area toward the west. It is arranged along the banks of the Fen River. It has a region of 20,275 square kilometers 7,828 sq mi and as per the 2010 Census, a populace of 4,316,612 occupants of which 944,050 live in the developed or metro zone made up of Yaodu urban locale. The GDP of Linfen positioned second in Shanxi Province. It was known as Pingyang amid the Spring and Autumn period.

In 2006, the American Blacksmith Institute recorded Linfen as one of the ten most contaminated urban areas on the planet. Before 1978, Linfen was acclaimed for its spring water, greenery and rich farming and hence nicknamed " The Modern Fruit and Flower Town ". From that point forward it has been forming into a principle mechanical community for coal mining, which has essentially harmed the city's condition, air quality, cultivating, wellbeing and its past status as a green town.