DID YOU KNOW?
Yantai is currently the second largest industrial city in Shandong, next to Qingdao. However, the region's largest industry is agriculture. It is famous throughout China for a particular variety of apple and Laiyang pear, and is home to the country's largest and oldest grape winery, Changyu.
POPULATION
6,970,000
LOCATION
Yantai is located along the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula, south of the junction of Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea and parallel to the southern coast of Liaoning.
HISTORY
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 ports in China.
EXCHANGES
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TOP BUSINESSES
Yantai has seven backbone industries, they are mechanic manufacture, textile, foodstuff, gold processing, e-information, bio-pharmacy and new materials. There are 3 national level and 10 provincial level economy and technology development zones and industry parks within the city. Having hosted several sessions of APEC Investment Mart and International Fruit/Vegetable Exposition, Yantai has become an important host city of APEC and International Fruit/Vegetable Exposition has become an important national commercial regular meeting.
