An 8-day university football tournament got off to a good start at Inner Mongolia Normal University, on May 25, as the biggest gathering of its kind in Inner Mongolia, this time with almost three dozen teams from 19 colleges and universities across the region to partake.
Hohhot customs reports that Inner Mongolia's total imports and exports in the first four months of the year were 23.68 billion yuan ($3.61 billion), a year-on-year decrease of 5.6 percent, with the exports declining 2.1 percent, and imports declining 7.9 percent.
A concert "Sounds of Grasslands" brought by the Mongolian singer Buren Bayaer and his family presented a splendid performance at the music hall of Inner Mongolia Normal University, on May 20.
Sixty-four enterprises in Inner Mongolia brought 68 scientific and technical projects to the Beijing International Convention and Exhibition Center for the 19th China Beijing International High-tech Expo, on May 19.
The 2016 Grassland International Dance Carnival, an important activity of the third Erdos International Nadam Festival that lasts from March to the end of the year, will be held in the city of Erdos, Inner Mongolia, Aug 1-15.
The technology bureau of Hohhot reported on May 23 that the city will receive technical innovation fund support for 2016 in the amount of 6.21 million yuan ($948,000).
In recent years, the Saihan district in the city of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia has been taking advantage of its strategic position to develop an agricultural vegetable industry base.
A severe drought in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region has inflicted damages in almost half of the region, causing more than 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in economic losses.
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.