Zibo is located at the junction of the mountainous area in the middle of Shandong Province and the Lubei Plain, with unique geographical advantages. It is adjacent to Mount Tai in the south, the Yellow River in the north, the coastal tourist cities Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai in the east and the spring city Jinan in the west. Zibo is an important transportation hub city in Shandong Province, with well-connected railways, vertical and horizontal highways and convenient transportation. < /SPAN> Zibo is a cluster city, which has jurisdiction over five districts of Zhangdian, Boshan, Zichuan, Zhoucun and Linzi, and three counties of Huantai, Yiyuan and Gaoqing. Jiqing expressway runs through the city from east to west. Zibo is one of the five major tourist areas and eight major tourist cities in Shandong Province, with a total area of 6,111 square kilometers and a population of 4 million. It has many cultural relics and beautiful natural scenery. The maximum longitudinal distance of the city is 1.51 kilometers, and the maximum horizontal distance is 87 kilometers; Topographic features are high in the south and low in the north. The highest altitude is 1118.3 meters, and the lowest altitude is 5 meters. Zibo is located in a warm temperate zone, with a semi-moist and semi-arid continental climate. The four seasons have distinct characteristics. Zibo is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, which has experienced three stages: Beixin culture, Dawenkou culture and Longshan culture. After the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Shang was annexed to Qi, creating a great Qi culture. As the political, economic and cultural center of Qi State for hundreds of years, Zibo was known as "the capital of the country", and it was still "bigger than Chang 'an" in the early Western Han Dynasty. Zibo has a long history and splendid culture. As the capital of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zi was the first of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period and the crown of the seven heroes in the Warring States Period for 811 years. During this period, the situation changed dramatically, and it was magnificent. Jiang Taigong, Qi Huangong, Qi Weiwang, Guan Zhong, Sun Wu, Yan Ying, Tian Dan, Sima Mao and other famous gentlemen and handsome men not only created "71,111 households in Linzi ... the road to Linzi, the hub of the car hit, the shoulders rubbed, and the curtain fell." It plays an important role in the historical stage of pre-Qin dynasty. With a long history, Zibo has left a large number of cultural relics and historic sites. The old city of Linzi and its surrounding areas are rich in cultural relics and historic sites, and are known as "underground museums". The post-Wenhua Li in Linzi was discovered for the first time in northern China. Dawenkou culture, Longshan culture, Yueshi culture and Yin Shang culture can be found in Zibo. Pu Songling, a great writer in the Qing Dynasty, and his masterpiece Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio have attracted more and more attention at home and abroad for their profound cultural connotations. Pujiazhuang in Zichuan District has also become a scenic and fairy-tale cultural tourist area of a strange studio. Wang Yuyang, Zhao Zhixin and Pu Songling, the literary leaders in Qing Dynasty, were called "three people by the river of filial piety" by later generations, which contained profound Qi culture, making Zibo a veritable cultural tourism capital with profound accumulation. Zibo has a long history and splendid culture, and is rich in resources for developing tourism. After the construction and development in recent years, the resource advantages of Zibo's tourism industry have been further brought into play, and a new pattern of tourism development with "one center and five links" has been formed. Linzi in the east is a tourist area of Qi culture, and also a national historical and cultural city. The China Museum of Ancient Cars in Linzi is located at 126 kilometers away from expressway, Jiqing. It focuses on the research and archaeological achievements of ancient cars in China, including the exhibition of ancient cars and horses in past dynasties and the post-Li martyrdom cars and horses, and comprehensively shows the glorious history and car-making technology of ancient cars in China. Located on the ruins of the ancient city of Qi State, the Museum of History of Qi State is one of the top ten special-shaped museums in China. Through a large number of precious cultural relics, a large number of documents, models, sculptures and other means of display, it vividly shows the history of the emergence, development, prosperity and decline of Qi State. The Martyr's Horse Pit in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is a sacrificial object of Qi Jinggong, with 611 horses buried underground, showing the prosperity of Qi and the luxury of nobles. A large number of tourist attractions, such as Jiang Taigong Temple, Guanzhong Mausoleum, Yanyings Tomb and Tianqi Tomb, constitute the rich connotation of Qi cultural tourism. Zichuan in central China is a tourist area of Liaozhai. The former residence of Pu Songling, the "king of the world's short stories", keeps the original appearance of Pu Songling when he lived there, which reflects the scene of Pu Songling writing a book in Liaozhai that year, "Xiao Zhai is rustling and the case is freezing". In the Liaozhai Garden built by Pu Weng's descendants relying on his former residence, there are unique and novel Fox Fairy Garden, legendary Shiyin Garden, Pu Songling's "Manjing" (now called Liu Quan) where he pumped water to make tea, and the Liaozhai Palace, which is also a fairy and a fan. Boshan and Yiyuan in the south are natural landscape tourist areas, where mountains, water, forests, springs and caves are naturally generated, and pavilions, terraces, pavilions and waterfalls are dotted among them, which is full of interest. The abundance of natural resources in southern mountainous areas, especially cave resources, is rare in northern China. The magnificent and peculiar Kaiyuan Cave was praised by experts as "the first cave in Shandong", and Jiutian Cave, with exquisite and unique Yiyuan and unusually rich stone flower resources, was praised as "the first stone flower cave in China". Yuanshan National Forest Park is full of pines and cypresses, and the sun is shaded by green trees. The scenic spots such as the ruins of the Great Wall of Qi, Shihai and Mengjiangnv Spring in the scenic area are all infiltrating and publicizing the vicissitudes and massiness of history. Lushan Mountain is one of the four high mountains in Shandong Province, and its plant resources are extremely rich. Lushan Forest Park is located in the core of Guanyunfeng, with towering mountains, criss-crossing gullies, waterfalls and flowing springs, dense forests, fresh air and cool climate. It is a typical mountain scenic spot and a good place for leisure and holiday. Huantai and Gaoqing in the north are lake folk-custom tourist areas, which are surrounded by clear water and simple folk customs, and have a water town scenery in the south of the north; Zhoucun in the west is an ancient shopping mall tourist area. The architectural pattern of the ancient shopping mall is patchwork, the stores are exquisite and unique, and the plaques and signs are colorful and full of ancient cultural charm, full of strong ancient commercial atmosphere; Zhangdian is the city's political and cultural center, as well as a tourist reception, catering, shopping and entertainment center. In recent years, the Zibo Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have strengthened the awareness of tourism quality products and attached great importance to the development of tourism, which has made Zibo's tourism industry enter a brand-new stage of rapid development, and was officially named "China Excellent Tourism City" by the National Tourism Administration in 2111. Economic Development: One of the top 51 cities in China, Zibo's economic strength has been increasing day by day after the construction and development since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially after more than 21 years of reform and opening up. Since 1992, Zibo has continuously entered the top 51 cities in China. In recent years, the city's foreign trade and economic cooperation, high-tech industries and private economy have developed rapidly, and the gross domestic product has increased by more than 11% every year. Industry is the backbone of Zibo's economy. There are 35 major industrial categories in Zibo, such as petrochemicals, ceramics, textiles, silk, medicine, building materials, metallurgy, electromechanical, plastics and electronics, and there are a large number of enterprises and products that occupy an important position in China and Shandong. Art glass and silk have a long history of production, with complete varieties of colors. The crude oil processing capacity, alumina, antipyretics and the output of small and medium-sized motors are among the highest in China. In recent years, Zibo has implemented the strategy of structural optimization, focused on cultivating pillar industries, and achieved remarkable results; Implementing the economic development strategy focusing on key towns, key groups, key projects and key parks, the advantages of plate economy development are more obvious; We have deepened the reform of enterprise property rights system and promoted the reform of enterprise shareholding system. There are 11 listed companies in the city. Zibo has distinctive agricultural characteristics, and has initially established the framework of suburban agriculture. The level of agricultural modernization is relatively high, and the comprehensive mechanization degree reaches 78%. Huantai County is the first "Double Thousand Counties" in northern China (with a yield of 1,111 kilograms of grain per mu and an income of 1,111 yuan per mu). Gaoqing and Yiyuan respectively entered the "Top 111 Counties" of cotton and fruit production in China. The city's rural areas have basically achieved a well-off life. Zibo is an important commodity distribution center and trade center in Shandong Province. It has built Zichuan clothing city and building materials market, Linzi chemical and vegetable market, Zhoucun textile market, Boshan ceramic glass and electromechanical market and other large-scale professional wholesale markets. In recent years, emerging tertiary industries such as finance, insurance, real estate, tourism and information services have developed rapidly. After decades of development and adjustment, the chemical industry in Zibo, an important chemical and new material base in China, has formed an industrial system with strong supporting development ability, and a number of advantageous enterprises and products occupy an important position in China and Shandong Province. Qilu Petrochemical Industry Company, located in Zibo, is a super-large petrochemical complex, making Zibo an important petrochemical base in China. In 2112, the foundation stone was laid for Qilu Chemical Industry Zone, one of the important cooperation projects between Shandong Provincial Government and China Petrochemical Group, with an investment scale of over 21 billion yuan, with an overall planning area of 42 square kilometers. Eastman Company, a leading international chemical company, has taken the lead in entering Qilu Chemical Industry Zone. With the construction of a series of large-scale projects, Qilu Chemical Industrial Park will be built into a first-class chemical industrial park with complete facilities and perfect functions. The development of high-tech industry in Zibo is gratifying, which not only forms characteristics in key areas, but also has a very broad prospect of industrialization, especially the rapid development of new materials industry. At present, among the 211 high-tech enterprises in the city, nearly 111 are involved in new materials; The output value of new materials and high-tech products reached 12 billion yuan, accounting for 61% of the output value of high-tech products in the city; Some new material enterprises have become larger production bases and supply centers in China. Zibo has formed the embryonic form of an important national new material base, and it is the only comprehensive national new material base among the new material achievement transformation and industrialization bases approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Zibo, one of the five largest ceramic producing areas in China, is one of the five largest ceramic capitals in China and an important ceramic producing area in China. At present, Zibo ceramic production has formed six bases: export ceramic base, high-grade hotel porcelain base, advanced glass ceramic refractory base, decorative material base, building ceramic base and high-tech base. Known as the "third generation national porcelain", Zibo ceramics have entered Zhongnanhai, the Great Hall of the People and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, selling well in famous hotels and restaurants in China and in more than 71 countries and regions around the world. On average, one in three Americans is using Zibo ceramics. At present, there are 332 ceramic production enterprises in the city, with nearly 1 million employees. In 2113, the export rate of daily-use ceramics in Zibo reached over 61%. Zibo has a long history and splendid culture. Qi culture is an important part of Chinese culture, and Zibo is also the birthplace of Qi culture.