Linyi City is located at the southeast of Shandong Province, facing the Yellow Sea to the east and bordering Jiangsu Province in the south. Exercising jurisdiction over 9 counties and 3 districts, with a total area of 17.2000 sq km and a total population of 10.275 million, is the largest administrative division of the whole province in terms of area and population. Linyi is known for many titles it has obtained, such as National Double-Support Model City, Outstanding Tourist City of China, National Environmental Protection Model City, City of Geothermal Resources of China, City of Calligraphy of China, City of Markets of China.

With a 2500-year history, Linyi is also a historic city. The famous Bamboo Slips of Sun Zi’s Art of War and Sun Bin’s Art of War were excavated here. Among 72 good disciples of Confucius, 13 of them grew up in Linyi. There are Former Residence of Wang Xizhi, the grand master and founder of Cao Shu of Eastern Jin Dynasty, Memorial Hall of Zhuge Liang, great strategist of Three Kingdoms Period in the city. Alike, the outstanding calligrapher Yan Zhenqing of Tang Dynasty and the prominent mathematician of Eastern Han Dynasty who invented abacus arithmetic grew up here or once lived here.

Additionally, Linyi is a famous old revolutionary base area. During the period of Anti-Japanese war and War of Liberation, our Party and Army had built revolutionary base in the area of Binghai, central and Southern part of Shandong Province many proletarians revolutionaries of the older generation had made their contributions to Chinese revolutionary career here for instance, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Xiangqian and Su Yu. The revolutionary base had a population of 4.2 million in the war time, among which, 200,000 people joined the army and entered the war, more than 1 million people supported the army and the front, and more than 100,000 revolutionary martyrs sacrificed their lives here. A group of advanced model figures emerged here, such as Ming Deying, a remarkable countrywoman who had saved the wounded soldiers with her milk, six women who had made great contributions to support the army and the front.

Phoenix Square

Linyi abounds in natural resources. It has rich fresh water resources and the total amount of water resources reaches 5.536 billion cubic m which accounts for one-sixth of the total quantity of the whole province. More than 90,000 water conservancy projects have been established, 37 of which are large-scale and medium-scale reservoirs with total capacity of 3.41 billion cubic m. Linyi possesses a great variety of mineral resources. There are 82 types of minerals with proven reserves, of which the reserves of diamond ranks the second place in China and the reserves of quartz sandstone, ceramic clay, dolomite and granite ranks the top position in Shandong Province. The agricultural products and by-products here are of both great quantity and quality. It has 8 production bases with local characteristics of peanut, tobacco leaf, silkworm, wicker, ginkgo, honeysuckle, chestnut and tea. Vegetable and fruit production are competitive industries in Linyi and the output of dehydrated vegetable has been the national top one in the past several years.