Due to the terrain and geographical location, most of the cold air from Siberia passes through Shandong Peninsula in winter and is blocked by mountains such as Ai Shan and Yashan, so a lot of cold and wet air flows from west to east along the mountains to the eastern part of the peninsula, namely Yantai and Weihai. This makes Yantai and Weihai have more snow in winter than other places in Shandong.

Weihai is a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province, a regional central city of Shandong Peninsula in China approved by the State Council, an important marine industrial base and a coastal tourist city. The city has jurisdiction over two districts and two county-level cities, with a total area of 5799.84 square kilometers and a built-up area of 29 1.09 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 on June 165438+ 10 on October 65438, the permanent population of Weihai was 2,906,548.

Weihai is located in the east of China, at the eastern end of Shandong Peninsula. It is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the north, east and south, Liaodong Peninsula in the north, Korea Peninsula across the sea in the east and Yantai in Shandong in the west. The maximum horizontal distance from east to west is 135 km, the maximum vertical distance from north to south is 8 1 km, and the coastline is 985.9 km long. Weihai is nicknamed ahava for its lofty maritime boundary.

Weihai is the closest city in Chinese mainland to Seoul, the birthplace of the first navy in modern China and the site of the Sino-Japanese War. After the Sino-Japanese War, Weihai was occupied by foreign powers and returned to the motherland.

1984 weihai became the first batch of coastal open cities in China. 1990 was rated as the first batch of national health cities in China. 20 16 was listed as the first batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization in the State Council. In 2020, the city's GDP will be 31.779 billion yuan.

In 20 15, it was selected as the fourth national civilized city, and in 20 17 and 2020, it was selected as the fifth and sixth national civilized cities respectively, thus creating a civilized city as a whole. Selected as the fifth national civilized city.

20 18 1 was selected as the first batch of demonstration cities for the construction of social credit system.

20 17 the overall well-off index of prefecture-level cities in China ranks 24th. 20 18 10, weihai was awarded the annual healthy China symbol city.

20 18 reconfirmed the national health city (district).

20 19 pilot cities for building new smart cities in Shandong province. 20201October 20th 10 was awarded as a national model city (county) with double support.