According to the information released by the Education Department of East Province, as of August 15, 2023, there were 980,000 candidates in Shandong Province this year, including 260,000 in the spring college entrance examination and 720,000 in the summer college entrance examination. It is located in the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Jinan as its capital. By 2022, there will be 16 prefecture-level cities and 26 county-level cities in Shandong Province.