Yantai - History

Yantai (Simplified: 烟台; Traditional: 煙台; Hanyu Pinyin: Yāntái) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Bohai Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively. The largest fishing seaport in Shandong and a robust economic center today, Yantai used to be known to the West as Chefoo, a misnomer which refers, in Chinese, solely to Zhifu Isla ...

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The region was inhabited by the non-Han people of the Eastern Yi (東夷), who were believed to have established a small state during the Xia Dynasty on the site of present-day Laizhou City. It became a feudal state call Lai (萊國) until the Warring States Period, when it was annexed by the State of Qi. During the Qin Dynasty, Yantai belonged to the Qi Prefecture, later renamed Donglai Prefecture (東萊郡) during the Han Dynasty. The area was known as the Donglai Kingdom during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) but later returned to prefecture s ...

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Because of its fair weather and extensive coasts Yantai is a popular summer retreat. It is also home to Asia's first bowling alley, which is no longer in operation. But there is the haunted house on the fourth floor of Parksons, a highly exhilarating tourist attractin. Penglai City's Dan Cliffs (丹崖) is said to be the departure point of the Eight Immortals on their trip to the Conference of the Magical Peach. ...

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Yantai Region is located north-central on the Shandong Peninsula, south of the Bohai Sea, and parallel to the southern tip of Korea. It has a coast line of 909 km. The topographical breakdown consists of: 36.62% mountain 39.7% hill 20.78% plains 2.90% basins Average mountain height is 500 meters, with the highest point at 922.8 meters on Mount Kunyu (昆崳山). ...

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The prefecture-level city of Yantai administers 12 county-level divisions, including 4 districts, 7 county-level cities and 1 county. Zhifu District (芝罘区) Fushan District (福山区) Muping District (牟平区) Laishan District (莱山区) Longkou City (龙口市) Laiyang City (莱阳市) Laizhou City (莱州市) Penglai City (蓬莱市) Zhaoyuan City (招远市) Qixia City (栖霞市) Haiyang City (海阳市) Changdao County (长岛县) These are further divided into 148 township-level divisions, including 9 ...

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Yantai is currently the second largest industrial city in Shandong, next only to Qingdao. Two sub-county special economic zones also exist, the Yantai Economy and Technology Development Area (YEDA), created in 1984 in northern Fushan District, and the Yantai Export Processing Area, formed in 2000 in north Zhifu District. The county-level city of Longkou is well known throughout China for its ...

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