Yantai

Yantai located at the middle part of Shandong Peninsula, overlooks Liaodong Peninsula across the Bohai Sea and Huanghai Sea to its north. Yantai has a long history and it is called "Zhifu" in the ancient times. In B.C. 200 years, China’s first emperor drew a bow to shoot the fish here, the site where he did that is called "diao yu tai"(in Chinese, it means the place where you fish). In A.D.1398, in order to defence the enemies from the sea, the government of the Ming Dynasty built the beacon tower here, from which the city derived her name "Yantai"( in Chinese, it means the place where smoke is produced to give warning ). In 1861, Yantai became one of the first opening ports in the modern China.