Laiyang, a county-level city managed by Yantai City, Shandong Province, is named after "the sun and the moon rise in the east". In ancient times, it was called "Changyang" and "Changguang", also known as "Pear City" and "Dragon City". Laiyang is located in the east of Shandong Province, bordering Yantai in the north and Qingdao in the south. It has been the "hinterland of Jiaodong" since ancient times. This is a hilly area with gentle hills and ravines. It belongs to temperate monsoon climate.
It governs 5 streets, 13 towns, with a total area of 1732 square kilometers. ? [According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Laiyang City was 794,986. ?
Laiyang is a specialty of Laiyang pear because of its unique climate and soil conditions, and is known as "Pear Town of China". The first dinosaur fossil in New China was found here, which is known as "the hometown of dinosaurs in China". Laiyang has been called "the hometown of calligraphy" and "the hometown of calligraphy" since ancient times, and a number of patriotic literati have emerged. Laiyang is the birthplace of Quanzhen religion, known as the "ancestral home of Taoism", where Qiu Chuji and Ma Danyang once preached and founded schools.
Laiyang is the birthplace of the national intangible cultural heritage "Mantis Boxing". Laiyang has many tourist attractions with local cultural characteristics, such as Cretaceous National Geopark, Zhuocun, Li Xiang-style tourist area, Luer Port, Niangniang Mountain, Longwang Temple and Jinshan Tower.