Laiyang is a city in Shandong Province.

Laiyang is a county-level city in Yantai City, Shandong Province, and its name is derived from the phrase "the sun and the moon come out of the sun of Donglai". Anciently known as "Changyang", "Changguang", but also "Pear City", "Dragon City" title. Laiyang is located in the east of Shandong Province, north of Yantai, south of Qingdao, since ancient times is the "Jiaodong hinterland"; for the low hills, hills and gentle rolling, gullies and ravines crisscrossing; belongs to the temperate monsoon climate; under the jurisdiction of 5 streets, 13 towns, with a total area of 1,732 square kilometers. As of zero hour on November 1, 2020, Laiyang city resident population of 794,986 people.

Laiyang City is known as the "Pear Township of China" because of its unique climate and soil conditions, which specializes in Laiyang Pear. The first dinosaur fossil in New China was unearthed here, and it is known as the "Hometown of Dinosaurs in China". Since ancient times, Laiyang has been known as "the hometown of ink and writing" and "the hometown of calligraphy", and a number of patriotic literati such as Zhang Mengyi and Zuo Maodi have emerged here, and Laiyang is the birthplace of "Quanzhen Buddhism", which is known as the "Ancestral Court of Taoism". Laiyang is the birthplace of Quanzhenism, known as the "ancestral court of Taoism", Qiu Qiqi, Ma Danyang and other missionary schools in this.

Laiyang is the birthplace of the national intangible cultural heritage "Mantis Fist". Laiyang has a number of tourist attractions with local cultural characteristics, such as Cretaceous National Geopark, Maocun, Pear Township Style Tourism Zone, Lu'er Harbor, Niangniang Mountain, Longwang Temple, Jinshan Pagoda and so on.

Laiyang's topographical features

Laiyang City is a low mountainous area, the hills undulate gently, gullies and ravines crisscrossing the city, due to the influence of the Jiaodong ridge topography, the terrain is tilted from north to south. North, east, central, southeast, southwest are not connected to the low hills group, is a low mountain hilly landform type. Along the river and between the mountain groups, there are disconnected river valley plains and mountain basin plains. The mountains account for 21.5% of the total area, the hills for 47.06%, and the plains for 31.43%.

The hilly area is distributed around the low mountains and their extensions, with an elevation of between 100 and 300 meters above sea level. Its shale and volcanic rocks, the top of the hill is rounded, hill slope - generally between 5 ° ~ 15 °, gully cross-section of the "U" type, the bottom of the gully longitudinal slope of the gently sloping, slope alluvial deposits are more developed, and some are as thick as 5 to 8 meters. The terrain of the plains and depressions in the territory can be divided into three types of plains according to their causes.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Laiyang