Linyi County, located in the northwest of Shandong Province, governs 6 towns, 3 streets and 3 townships with a population of 520,000 and an area of 1.0 1.6 square kilometers. Linyi has a long history and outstanding people. The Western Zhou Dynasty was Qi, and the Spring and Autumn Period was the city. Luo Yin County was established in Qin Dynasty, and Linyi County was changed in Southern Dynasties, and the city was named Licheng. Because the city looks like a lying cow, it is also called "the lying cow city". Xing Dong, a famous painter and poet in the late Ming Dynasty, was born here. A number of historical celebrities such as Gaizhong, Chen Guo, Ge Shouli, Xing Cijing and Wang Qia have also emerged in history. Linyi, an old revolutionary base, was once the seat of Luobei Administrative Office in Shandong Province, and countless revolutionary volunteers left many heroic deeds. Linyi is bordered by Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Jinan, the provincial capital in the south, Dezhou in the west and Bohai Bay in the east. It is the connecting zone between North China and East China. Located in the Bohai Economic Circle, the Yellow River Delta and the "Beijing-Kowloon" Economic Development Zone, it has the geographical advantage of "borrowing from the north and the south to help the east and the west". The territory is rich in oil and natural gas resources. The proven oil reserves are 300 million tons and natural gas is 4 billion cubic meters. China has 1800 oil and gas wells with an annual output of 2.3 million tons. Pan Lin Oil Production Plant of Shengli Oilfield and Yunguigui Drilling Company are located in China.

In recent years, Linyi has held high the main theme of accelerating development, seized opportunities in meeting challenges, solved problems in pioneering and innovating, and achieved fruitful results in the coordinated development of county economy and social industries around the goal of "taking the lead in rising in Texas and striving to sprint the top 30 in the province". From 200 1, the total economic output rose from the fifth place in 2000 to the 1 place in 2004, ranking first in the comprehensive evaluation of the city's economic development for five consecutive years. Other social undertakings have also shown a good momentum of development, and have been awarded more than 20 honorary titles at or above the provincial level, such as national double support model county, national ecological environment monitoring pilot county, advanced county in grass-roots organization construction, advanced county in spiritual civilization construction, advanced county in letters and visits work, advanced county in veteran cadres work, advanced county in safety production, advanced county in national defense education, advanced county in rural education and advanced county in subsistence allowances work.