Jinan, also known as Quancheng, a sub-provincial city, is the capital of Shandong Province, the core city of Jinan metropolitan area, and the central city in the south wing of Bohai Rim approved by the State Council. It is also the political, economic, cultural, scientific, educational and financial center of Shandong Province and an important transportation hub.

Jinan is located in the east of China, the middle of Shandong Province and the southeast edge of North China Plain. It is the headquarters of the army organs in the northern theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with the capital economic circle in the north and the Yangtze River Delta economic circle in the south. It is an important intersection of the Bohai Economic Zone and the Beijing-Shanghai Economic Axis, and it is also one of the central cities of the Bohai Economic Zone and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.