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Yantai is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, located in the east of China, northeast of Shandong Peninsula, bordering Weihai in the east, Weifang in the west, Qingdao in the southwest, Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea in the north, and facing Liaodong Peninsula and Dalian across the sea. The whole terrain is dominated by low mountains and hills, belonging to temperate monsoon climate; By the end of 2022, there were five districts and six county-level cities in the city, with a total land area of 13930. 1 square kilometer, a permanent population of 7,058,700 and an urbanization rate of 68.23%.
Yantai has been subordinate to Deng Gufu since the early Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the invasion of Japanese pirates, the flag mountain was set up and the "Wolf Yantai" was built, hence the name Yantai. In June, 1983, 1 1, Yantai was established. Yantai has a long history of marine culture. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it became the starting point of the Oriental Maritime Silk Road, where Xu Fu of Qin Dynasty crossed the Fusang River. The main scenic spots in Yantai are Penglai Pavilion, Yantai Mountain and Yuhuangding.
Yantai is the central city of Shandong Peninsula in China approved by the State Council, an important port city and national historical and cultural city around Bohai Sea, an important node city of Bohai Sea Economic Circle and Jiaodong Economic Circle, a national II-type big city, a national forest city, a national water ecological civilization city, one of the first batch of 14 coastal open cities in China, a port city under the national strategy of "Belt and Road" and a key area of Jiaodong Revolutionary Base. He has won the UN Habitat Award and the China Habitat Environment Award.
On August 30th, Rongcheng, Wendeng, Rushan, Mu Ping, Haiyang, Laiyang, Qixia, Zhaoyuan, Huangxian, Penglai, Yexian, Changdao and other 12 counties in the former Yantai area were placed under the jurisdiction of Yantai City. Weihai was changed to a provincial (county-level) city, which was managed by Yantai; Laixi county, the former Yantai area, was placed under the jurisdiction of Qingdao. At the same time, according to the document of Zheng Lu [1983]15 of Shandong Provincial People's Government, Yantai was changed to Zhifu District, and Fushan County was changed to Fushan District.