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A Brief Introduction to Shandong Province

My dear friends,welcome to shandong province.Confucius said:Isn't it a great

pleasure to have friends coming from afar!Today it's a pleasure for me to meet you here and to be of service.First,I'll give you a brief introduction to shandong province.

1. Natural Geography

shandong province is located in the east of china ,at the lower reaches of the yellow River.It is one of themost important cosatal province. It covers an area of 156,700square kilometers,occupying1.6%of the country's

territory .Shandong boats a coastal line of 3,024 kilometers.It bordes ocean in the east and land in the west.shandong haspeninsula and island.The shandong peninsula protrudes between the Bohai sea shnd Yellow sea,and faces the Liaodong peninsula in the north across the bohai straits, forming the maritime outpost of the nation's capital--beijing.The western inland part borders Hebei, Henan,Anhui and Jiangsu provinces from north to south.

2. Administrative Divisions and Population

Shandong has 17 prefectural -lever cites,140 county-level districts,among them 49 diatricts in urbanarea,31 county-level cities, 60 counties.The population of Shandong is about 93 million.Jinan is the capital of the province .Qingdao is a very famous coastai city.

3.Climate

Shandong has a warm-temperate monsoon climate.It has hot summers with centralized rainfall sa well as short springs and autumns with an average annual temperature ranging form 11centigrade to 14centigrade. With an average annual rainfall ranging form 550mm to 950mm, the rainfall reduces from the southeast to northwest.Because 60% rainfall is centralized in summre,it is easy to come to waterlog in summer and drought in winter and spring. It is most influential for agriculture.

4.History

Shandong is one of the birthplances of ancient Chinese culture. The fossil of Yiyuan Man proves that Shandong is the cradle of ancient human beinga four or five thousand years ago.Beixin Culture, Dawenkou Culture and Longshan Culture found in Shandong trace the change from matriarchal clan socity to patriarchal

clan society with rather advanced agriculture,animal husbandy and handicraft industry.Shandong is the headsteam of pottery and silk.During the

spring and Autuma and the Warring States Period, the Qi State and Lu State in shandong Province are two advanced ducal states.Because of this,we call Shandong "theLand of Qi and Lu"is also called for ashort name.

5.History figures

Shandong enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of Confucius and Mencius"and "the land of ceremony

and proprierty" .A lot of historic figures still give great influences until today.Confucianism ,which founded by the great philosopher,educatir Confucius is the backbone of Chinese traditional culture and has exerted profound influence in the world."Strategics of Sun ZI" (待续）2010-7-11

6. Tourism resources

Shandong tourism resources are abundant, there are beautiful natural scenery and a large number of spots. The world natural and cultural double heritage Tarzan, world cultural heritage, qufu konglin was suggested, Confucius and Confucian temple, the qi LinZi GuDou international beer city, Qingdao, yantai international wine city, days end rongcheng city, jinan, the mouth of the Yellow River, the fathers of wonders, seazan KunYu mountain, a beautiful legend Yi mountain, the well-known novel by famous famous liangshan, all is the ideal destination tourists.

7. Traffic

Shandong jinan, including nine airport YaoQiang international airport, Qingdao liuting international airport and yantai laishan international airport is the international passenger airport. These airports have flights to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and the domestic many major cities.

Shandong highway is in length and quality, etc. Shandong highway length and density in the first place. Beijing-shanghai, beijing-fuzhou, tongsan expressway, tsing silver for to shandong provides quick and convenient traffic. Provincial traffic is very convenient, highway to jinan, capital and other closely linked in 16 cities. By the end of 2007, shandong highway traffic mileage more than 4,000 kilometers.

Shandong railway has forming self traffic network. Jingjiu railway traverses from Beijing and Shanghai, shandong north and south, jiazhou - something