Without to say, Shandong is a province restoring ancient Chinese culture for centuries. The world-renowned Dawenkou Cultural Remains, Longkou Cultural Remains are both first unearthed in Shandong.
Shandong Province is situated along the eastern coastal lines and in the lower reaches of Yellow River, comprising of peninsulas and inlands. The Shandong peninsula stretches out between Bo Sea and Yellow Sea, stands facing each other with Liaodong peninsula and embraces the Bo Sea bay. The inlands border Hebei Province and Jiangsu Province from north to south.
Shandong is a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism, and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and one of the world's sites with the longest history of continuous religious worship. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the provincial capital of Jinan where once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius that was later established as the center of Confucianism.
Provincial Capital: Jinan
Area: Covering a total land area of 15.71 million square kilometers.
Geography: Shandong is on the lower reaches of the Huanghe River (Yellow River) in the eastern part of the North China Plain. The Shandong Peninsular borders on the Bohai Sea in the northwest and the Yellow Sea in the northeast and south, with a coastline running about 3,000 kilometers.
Shandong is mostly flat in terrain. The northwestern, western, and southwestern parts of the province are all part of the vast North China Plain. The center of the province is more mountainous, with the Mount Tai, Mount Lu, and Mengshan Mountains being the most prominent.
The Yellow River passes through Shandong's western areas, entering the sea along Shandong's northern coast; in its traversal of Shandong. The Grand Canal of China enters Shandong from the northwest and leaves on the southwest. Weishan Lake is the largest lake of the province. Shandong's coastline is 3000 km long. Shandong Peninsula has a rocky coastline with cliffs, bays, and islands
Population: Shandong Province has a large population of 92, 48 million.
Administrative Division: Until 2005, Shandong has 17 cities, 139 county-level districts, among them 49 districts in urban area, 31 county-level cities, 60 counties. Jinan is the capital of Shandong
Climate: Shandong has a warm-temperate monsoonal climate. It has hot summers with centralized rainfall as well as short springs and autumns with an average annual temperature ranging from 11centigrade to 14centigrade. The temperature diversifies more dramatic from east to west than from the south to north. With an average annual rainfall ranging from 550mm to 950mm, the rainfall reduces from the southeast to northwest. Shandong province has abundant sunshine with an average ranging from 2300 to 2890 hours annually; the sunshine can afford the need of sowing seeds twice per year. Because 60% rainfall centralized in summer, it is easy to come to waterlog in summer and drought in winter and spring. It is most influential for agriculture.
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