Rizhao is named after "the first ray of sunrise". It is a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province, located in the southeast of Shandong Province, facing Japan and South Korea across the Yellow Sea in the east, Linyi in the west, Qingdao and Weifang in the north and Lianyungang in the south. The city has a total area of 5,358.57 square kilometers and a sea area of 6,000 square kilometers, which governs Donggang District, lanshan district, Juxian County and Wulian County.
Rizhao is an ecological, livable, tourist, modern port city and industrial base in China, and it is also a part of Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration, Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone and Jiaodong Economic Zone. Rizhao has a long coastline of 168.5 km, and has two natural ports, Shijiu Bay and Fushouwan, as well as a port group consisting of Rizhao Port and Lanshan Port. It is known as "Water Sports Capital" and "Oriental Sun City" and won the UN Habitat Award for its excellent environment.
geographical environment
Rizhao is located on the seashore, with various landforms, such as plains, hills, waters, wetlands and oceans. Rivers in the territory are vertical and horizontal, belonging to Shuhe River and Weihe River respectively. Except the Weihe River flows into the Bohai Sea, all the others flow into the Yellow Sea. There are 0/8 rivers/kloc-0, with a total length of 46 1.4km and a drainage area of 5,222.7km2 There are 4,358 large and small hills in Rizhao.
The western part is Taiyi Mountain system, which mostly runs southeast and northwest. Most of the northern mountainous areas are north-south, southwest and northeast; There are seven unconnected mountains in the south-central part with different directions; In the east, there are 39 mountains in Jiaodong, with an altitude of over 500 meters.
Rizhao belongs to temperate monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons, no severe cold in winter and no heat in summer, which is very humid. Typhoons frequently land, with annual average temperature 12.7℃, annual average humidity of 72%, frost-free period of 223 days, annual average sunshine of 2533 hours and annual average precipitation of 874 mm.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Rizhao City