Foreign Experts Handbook
We warmly welcome you to Yantai University. In order to help you have a pleasant stay here, we have made this small handbook to provide you with information for working and living on campus.

Yantai
Yantai is an important Chinese coastal city on the Bohai Gulf. It is located on the eastern side of Shandong Peninsula facing Japan and the Republic of Korea across the sea. It has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 1 county and 7 county-level cities, covering a total area of 13,700 square kilometers with a population of 6.47 million, among which over 1.5 million live in the city proper. Yantai is a beautiful port city as well as a famous tourist resort in northern China. The annual average temperature is about 12 degrees Centigrade and there is neither bitter winter cold nor intense summer heat.
Along more than 900-kilometers of coastline are many places of historic interest and scenic beauty such as Penglai Pavilion, known as a “Fairyland on Earth”; fairy mountain on the sea-Changdao Island, and Mou Family Manor. There are many more. Each year these sites are visited by tens of thousands of tourists from both home and abroad. Yantai has rich natural resources and many delicious local agricultural products.It is China's famous fishery base with fresh seafood readily available in markets and restaurants. The home of a variety of fresh fruits,Yantai is famous for Yantai apples, Laiyang pears, and Changyu wine. Moreover, Yantai's reserves and output

of gold occupy first place in China.

Yantai has made the industrial development of advanced technology the focus as it implements a strategy to “Develop Yantai by Science and Education”.In addition to Yantai University, there are several other universities like Ludong University (Yantai Teacher's College), Shandong Institute of Business and Technology and The PLA Navy of Aeronautical Engineering.Yantai has over 200 cultural venues and nearly 100 artistic performing groups. Yantai has been named both a “Nation Model City of Culture” and one of the “Most Attractive Cities” in China.