Gaomi is located in Jiaodong area in the east of Shandong Peninsula, in the hinterland of Jiaolai Plain, bordering Qingdao in the east. It is the hometown of Yan Ying, a famous scholar in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Xuan, a great scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Yong, a great scholar in the Qing Dynasty, and Mo Yan, a winner in Nobel Prize in Literature. Covering an area of 1,526 square kilometers, it governs 96 administrative villages (residences) with a population of 876,. It is one of the key coastal open counties and cities of Shandong Peninsula approved by the State Council, a national science and technology innovation demonstration county, a national top 1 trademark county, a national model county for intensive land conservation, a famous home textile city in China, a hometown of Chinese folk art and a hometown of China ash-throwing New Year pictures.