Leader's
Speech
Located in the middle of Shandong province and close to the Yellow
Sea and Bohai Sea, Yantai faces Japan, South Korea and North
Korea across the sea. Being one of the first batch of coastal
opening cities, Yantai governs 4 districts, 1 county and 7 county-level
cities with the total population of 6.47 million and total area
of 13.7 thousand square kilometers. Yantai is famous for Yantai
apple, Laiyang pear, Changyu wine and Polaris clock. Moreover,
Yantai?s reserves and output of the gold occupy the first place
in China.
Being an important commercial town and port in ancient China,
Yantai has the history of over 600 years and advanced economy
and culture. In the Spring and Autumn period, Yantai was one
of the major 5 ports; in the Tang Dynasty, the city became the
beginning place of Maritime Silk Road; in 1861, the city opened
to the outside world, over 10 foreign countries set embassies
and established factories here making Yantai one of the modern
openging ports in China.
Yantai has beautiful environment and complete infrastructure.
There are 9 ports within the city including 5 national top grade
opening ports; Yantai Airport is the national top grade opening
airport which has over 50 flight courses; Railway, expressway
and telecommunication are all convenient. The municipal government
has been making efforts to improve the city?s image and build
an excellent investment climate, living environment and ecological
environment. Yantai is listed as the National Leading City in
Investment Environment, National Sanitary City, National Environmental
Protection Model City, National Garden City and so on.
Yantai is one of the first batch of National
Excellent Tourist Cities. Here the average temperature
is 12?,winter is not very cold and summer is not very hot.
The city has many beautiful spots such as ten golden beaches
lying along the over 900 kilometers coastline, the fairyland
of human world?Penglai Pavilion, fairy mountain on the
sea?Changdao Island, Mushi Demesne, Chinese calligraphy
rarity?Engravings of Wenfeng Mountain, modern country--Longkou
Nanshan Group and so on. These spots attract hundreds and
thousands of tourists.
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