General introduction of Yantai City

　　Located in the middle of Shandong province and close to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, Yantai faces Japan, South Korea and North Korea across the sea. Being one of the first batch of coastal opening cities, Yantai governs 4 districts, 1 county and 7 county-level cities with the total population of 6.47 million and total area of 13.7 thousand square meters. Yantai is famous for Yantai apple, Laiyang pear, Changyu wine and Polaris clock. Moreover, Yantai’s reserves and output of the gold occupy the first place in China.
　　Being an important commercial town and port in ancient China, Yantai has the history of over 600 years and advanced economy and culture. In the Spring and Autumn period, Yantai was one of the major 5 ports; in the Tang Dynasty, the city became the beginning place of Maritime Silk Road; in 1861, the city opened to the outside world, over 10 foreign countries set embassies and established factories here making Yantai one of the modern openging ports in China.
　　Yantai has beautiful environment and complete infrastructure. There 9 ports within the city including 5 national top grade opening ports; Yantai Airport is the national top grade opening airport which has over 50 flight courses; Railway, expressway and telecommunication are all convenient. The municipal government has been making efforts to improve the city’s image and build an excellent investment climate, living environment and ecological environment. Yantai is listed as the National Leading City in Investment Environment, National Sanitary City, National Environmental Protection Model City, National Garden City and so on.
　　Yantai is one of the first batch of National Excellent Tourist Cities. Here the average temperature is 12℃,winter is not very cold and summer is not very hot. The city has many beautiful spots such as ten golden beaches lying along the over 900 kilometers coastline, the fairyland of human world—Penglai Pavilion, fairy mountain on the sea—Changdao Island, Mushi Demesne, Chinese calligraphy rarity—Engravings of Wenfeng Mountain, modern country--Longkou Nanshan Group and so on. These spots attract hundreds and thousands of tourists.
　　Yantai has seven backbone industries, they are mechanic manufacture, textile, foodstuff, gold processing, e-information, bio-pharmacy and new meterials. There are 3 national level and 10 provincial level ecomony and technology development zones and industry parks within the city. Having hosted several sessions of APEC Investment Mart and International Fruit/Vegetable Exposition, Yantai has become an important host city of APEC and Interantional Fruit/Vegetable Expositon has become an important national commercial regular meeting.
　　Today, Yantai has already set foot on the great journey of building a well-off society and realizing the modernizations. Facing the scarce opportunities and austere challenges, we will open up and advance courageously to build Yantai a regional central city as well as an important opening base and coastal ecology tourist city.
　　In the future, Yantai will become more open and energetic. We welcome friends from all walks of life at home and abroad to travel and invest in Yantai.
　　Opening Yantai welcomes you! Let’s creat happy life and bright future together!

i think, according to regionalism, Economy  Technology Zone is not considered as a district.

以前看过 应该是northeast 而非middle

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原帖由 sunnyjudy 于 2008-6-18 14:02 发表
以前看过 应该是northeast 而非middle

　Located in the middle of Shandong province and close to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea,

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原帖由 性情鼓手 于 2008-6-18 14:04 发表

　Located in the middle of Shandong province and close to the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea,

i have dialed the mayor hotline to give the suggestion to our mayor. thx , Sunnyjudy.

强强强。。。

I  have nothing to say ,but I only said "excellent"

烟台简介（中文）

烟台坐落于山东省的东部（上边说中部，我认为不妥），濒临黄海和渤海，与日本，韩国，和朝鲜隔海相望。是国家第一批沿海开放城市，烟台下辖四个区，一个县和7个县级市，人口647万，面积13700平方公里（原文写的不正确）。烟台苹果，莱阳梨，张裕葡萄酒和北极星钟表享有盛名。除此之外，黄金的储量和产量均居全国第一。

作为中国古代重要商业城市和港口，烟台拥有600年的悠久历史和繁荣的经济文化。在春季和秋季烟台是五个重要港口之一。远在唐朝时期，就已成为丝绸之路的起端。1861年，开始对外国开放，10多个国家派来大使，建立工厂；建立了现代开放港口。

烟台环境优美，基础设施健全。境内9个港口，其中5个国际顶级港口；烟台飞机场是国际级开放空港，现开通了50余条航线；铁路，高速公路和通讯都十分便利。市政府正致力于提高城市形象和创造卓越的投资环境，居住环境和生态环境。烟台是国家已列出的主导投资环境城市，国家卫生城市，国家环境保护模范城市，国家花园城市等等。

烟台是第一批国家优美环境观光城市之一。这里的平均温度是12℃，冬暖夏凉。拥有很多优美的观光景点，例如绵延900公里的海岸线有十个黄金沙滩海岸，人间仙境-蓬莱阁、海上仙山-长岛、牟氏庄园、中国书法的稀有-镌刻的文峰山、社会主义新农村龙口南山等等。这些优美的景点吸引了成千上百的观光者。

烟台有七大支柱工业产业，它们是机械制造、纺织工业、食品轻工、黄金加工，电子信息、生物医药和新型材料。拥有3个国家级和10个省级经济技术开发区和工业园区。已举办过数次APEC投资博览会和国际果蔬博览会，烟台已成为重要的APEC博览会举办城市，国际果蔬博览会已成为一想重要的国际商业例会。

今天，烟台已踏上建设小康社会和社会主义现代化的伟大旅程。面对不多的机会和严峻的挑战，我们以开放的眼光把烟台建设成为一个区域性的中心城市，重要的对外开放基地和沿海经济观光城市。

在不久的将来，烟台将更加的开放更加的充满活力。我们欢迎来自国内外的各行各业的朋友们来烟台旅游和投资。

开放的烟台欢迎您！让我们一起创造幸福的生活和光明的未来！

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[ 本帖最后由 jianming666 于 2008-6-23 15:58 编辑 ]

  By the way， "Let's creat happy life ..." should be "Let's create happy life ..."