According to People's Daily Online, Song Yongxiang, secretary of Binzhou Municipal Party Committee, did not give a clear reply.

Binzhou generally refers to Binzhou. Binzhou is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, located in the north of Shandong, the east of North China Plain and the hinterland of the Yellow River Delta. Located in the overlapping zone of Yellow River Delta Efficient Ecological Economic Zone, Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone, Bohai Economic Zone and Jinan Metropolitan Area, it is the north gate of Shandong.