Yankuang is located in Jining City, Shandong Province, a world-famous "hometown of Confucius and Mencius and a state of etiquette". Mount Tai in the west and Bohai Sea in the east. Land and water transportation extend in all directions, about 300 kilometers away from Rizhao Port, the second largest coal port in China. Yanshi Line, a special coal railway, goes directly to Rizhao Port. The three major railway trunk lines of Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Kowloon and Longhai pass through the mining area, and the Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway passes through the territory.