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Qingdao Travel Guide
Your first impression and feeling about the city is that Qingdao isn't an ordinary Chinese city, its European architectural style, beer culture, the blue clear sky and beaches, which make you feel that you are not in Asia. Squares with beautiful flowers and meadows become the essential part of the city, for which they are different with one another. It is also the important Olympic sailing base in 2008.
Music and sculptures in the square make the city romantic and poetic, narrow one way roads are common in the downtown but traffic congestion conditions are quite seldom seen, drivers and pedestrians are abiding the law and obeying the instruction of the traffic lights, so you seldom to see the traffic police so busy in doing the direction gestures. The road signs are very clear, and everything here is clean and tidy. Every detail in Qingdao is very artistic, for example, the traffic isolation area and bus stops are well-designed and very eye-catching. So if you are in Qingdao, perhaps you are in a giant museum or a big art exhibition hall too!
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Qingdao History
Chinese men existed and increased here 6000 years ago. During Zhou Dynasty when China still was in slavery period, the second largest town was established in Qingdao at the time. After China’s first unification, Emperor Qin Shihuang visited Langya Dais for three times in Qingdao. Starting from Qingdao, Xu Fu who was said to be the forefather of the Japanese led his fleets to Korea and Japan in order to search for the Longevity Medicine, but he never returned since then. In late Qing Dynasty, Qingdao had been a prosperous small-size town named Jiaoao. On June 14, 1891, government of Qing Dynasty began to fortify in Qingdao. This is the beginning that Qingdao was widely known. In 1897, German under the pretense of Juye Accident occupied Qingdo by force. In 1914, the First World War broke out, and in November, Japan took Qingdao by force instead of German’s colonized occupation. In 1919, Chinese famous May-Fourth Movement started in the name of Returning Qingdao. In 1922, China brought Qingdao back and in 1929, Qingdao was specially set up as a city and in 1930 it was formally called Qingdao. In 1938, Japanese reoccupied Qingdao during the Second World War. In 1945, Qingdao was returned again.
Qingdao History
Qingdao is one of Chinese coastal open cities, and the largest industrial city in Shangdong province. In Qingdao, there are many Chinese famous companies such as Haier, Qingdao Beer and Hisense. Qingdao currently has more than 80 nationwide famous brands. As one of Chinese first batch of coastal open cites and national historic&cultural cities, Qingdao has successfully established a new look based on its traditional environment. The harmony between human and nature, highlights of city uniqueness, beautification of environment as well as the cultural succession are all highly emphasized. A series of honors and awards have been won by Qingdao such as National Sanitary City, Chinese Excellent Travel City, National Garden City, National Model City of Environmental Protection, Chinese Model City of Water-Saving, UN and National Model Award of Human Habitat, Chinese Award of Human Habitat and National Civilized City and so on. Qingdao has been one of best habitat of human in the world.
Qingdao citizens are fond of sports very much, and Qingdao boasts Chinese football center and track and field center. Qingdao is also Chinese Sailing Center with Chinese best sailing equipments and environment. Qingdao was also one of the competition arenas in 2008 Beijing Olympics and mainly took charge of sailing competition.
Qingdao Cuisine
Qingdao Cusine is famous for its seafood such as scallop, sea cucumber, abalone, large prawn and trumpet shell and so on. In Qingdao, travelers can enjoy the characteristic seafood banquet and also the variety of snacks of different places in Shangdong province. On some small streets, you may enjoy the true snacks with surprise; Jiangning road is a famous snack street in Qingdao. Seafood Street of Damaidao, Cuisine Street of Yunxiao Road, Snack Street of Huiquan Road, Barbecue Street of Taishan Road and Eating Street of Changan Road are all the best choice for visitors to enjoy the local food.
Qingdao Geography
Qingdao is a coastal scenic city located in the southwestern part of the Jiaodong Peninsular, at the coast of Shandong Province, eastern China. The eastern and southern sides of the city face the Yellow Sea, neighboring Yantai in the northeast, and bordering Weifang City and Rizhao City in the west and southwest respectively. So the altitude of the landscape is high in the north and low in the south; the highest point of Qingdao is the Laoshan Peak, which has a height of 1133 m above sea level, it is also the highest peak of the coastal region of China and one of the holy peaks for Taoism in China. With low mountains and hills, as well as bays and beaches, landscape of Qingdao landscape is seen as quite unique among cities in China. The length of Qingdao's coastline is about 730 km, having 49 bays, in which some of them are suitable for ship's berth. The total land (with 52 small coastal islands) area of Qingdao is 10654 sq. km.
Qingdao Climate
The four seasons are quite distinctive : summer is shorter and cooler than the inland areas because Qingdao belongs to the maritime temperate climate zone. Winter is much milder than other places in northern China too. The mean daily temperature in the coldest month January, is -0.1 degrees Celsius, while the hottest month is August that the mean daily temperature is 25.1 degrees Celsius. The extremes recorded are -10.2 and 37.4 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall is around 950 mm. So the best time to visit the city is between July and September, especially in August when the famous Beer Festival is held here. In winter, tourists must be wrapped up warm because the low temperature and high humidity.
Qingdao Population
The total population in Qingdao is officially estimated around 7.5 million in 2006, which the Han Chinese occupies the vast majority of the people in the city.
