Provincial periodicals. Western Education Research is an educational publication sponsored by neijiang normal University and edited by Wang Haitao. It is published quarterly in 16 format. It belongs to provincial periodicals. Shaanxi, referred to as "Shaanxi" or "Qin" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), with an as its capital, located in the hinterland of China and the middle reaches of the Yellow River, bordering Shaanxi and Henan in the east and Ningxia and Gansu in the west.