Yantai City is situated in the east of Shandong Peninsula, adjacent to the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea and opposite to South Korea and Japan.
    It was called “Zhifu” in ancient times. In the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty, beacon towers were constructed at the top of the mountains to prevent Japanese pirates, so it was named after the towers. And Yantai became one of the first ports that opened up to the outside in 1861.
    Four urban districts (Zhifu, Fushan, Laishan, Mouping), seven county-level cities (Longkou, Laiyang, laizhou, Penglai, Zhaoyuan, Qixia Haiyang) and one county (Changdao) are under the jurisdiction of Yantai. It has a total area of 137,460,000 square kilometers and a population of 6.45 million, of which the urban districts has an area of 2,644 square kilometers and a population of 1.568 respectively.
    Yantai City is typical of marine characteristics, and integrates mountains, city, sea and islands, with abundant natural resources and beautiful scenery. It is both a famous summer resort and a vacationing paradise in North China with mild climate and four distinctive seasons.