Yantai, a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province, is one of the central cities of Shandong Peninsula and an important port city around Bohai Sea. Yantai City is located in the east of Shandong Peninsula, bordering the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and facing Liaodong Peninsula, Japan, South Korea and North Korea across the sea.
Yantai is surrounded by mountains and seas, with beautiful scenery, four distinct seasons and beautiful scenery. The endless sandy beaches, the blue islands, the beautiful Penglai Xiange and the fantastic mirage make Yantai a famous tourist and holiday resort at home and abroad. Yantai is a gentle hilly area, with mountains accounting for 36.6%, hills accounting for 39.7%, plains accounting for 20.8% and depressions accounting for 2.9%.
Yantai is rich in marine fishery resources, rich in sea cucumbers, prawns, abalone, scallops and other marine treasures, with more than 200 species of offshore fishery organisms, including 100 species with fishing value. It is an important fishing base in China. Yantai is a famous fruit producing area in northern China, and its native products have a long-standing reputation at home and abroad. Eight products including Yantai wine, Yantai apple, Yantai cherry and Yantai sea cucumber have become national geographical indication protection products.
Yantai Apple, Laiyang Pear, Yantai Cherry, Laizhou Portunus Crab, etc. 19 products have won the national geographical indication certification trademark. Underground mineral resources are very rich, with more than 70 kinds of minerals discovered and more than 40 kinds of proven reserves. Gold reserves and output rank first in China, while magnesite, molybdenum and talc reserves rank first in China. The coastal continental shelf is rich in oil and natural gas resources, belonging to "rich" oil areas.
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Yantai has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of early ancient culture in China. According to research, people lived here as early as the late Pleistocene (about 1 10,000 years ago). In ancient times, it was the land of Dongyi, the Xia Dynasty founded the country here, and the Shang, Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn Dynasties were the land of Laiguo.
The Warring States belongs to Qi, the Qin Dynasty to Qi County, the Han Dynasty to Donglai County, the Jin Dynasty to Donglai State, the Northern and Southern Dynasties to Donglai and Changguang County, the Sui Dynasty to Laizhou, the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties to Dengzhou and Laizhou, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties to Dengzhou and Laizhou.
In A.D. 1398 (thirty-one year of Ming Hongwu), in order to strengthen coastal defense, the Ming government set up Qishan garrison here, which was the earliest prototype of Yantai City. The beacon tower was built in Beishan, also known as "Wolf Yantai", hence the name Yantai.
In A.D. 1858 (the eighth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty), the Qing government signed the Tianjin Treaty with Britain and France, taking Dengzhou as a trading port, and changed 186 1 year to Yantai. Since then, Britain, France, the United States and other 17 countries have set up consulates in Yantai.
After the founding of New China, 1950 established Wendeng, Laiyang and Yantai, 1958 established Yantai, 1983+0 1 established Yantai. ?
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