Haiyang
Haiyang (simplified Chinese: 海阳; traditional Chinese: 海陽; pinyin: Hǎiyáng), is a coastal city in Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula. It is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yantai.
Haiyang
海阳市 | |
|---|---|
Location in Yantai | |
Haiyang Location in Shandong | |
| Coordinates: 36°46′45″N 121°10′05″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Shandong |
| Prefecture-level city | Yantai |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,886 km2 (728 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
| • Total | 658,000 |
| • Density | 350/km2 (900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 265100 |
| Website | www |
Haiyang is a popular tourist destination known for its national parks, wetland reserves, yachting and beaches. On 2 December 2006 the Olympic Council of Asia in Doha announced the selection of Haiyang as the host city for the 2012 Asian Beach Games. Haiyang is the site of the new Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant. Haiyang is the hometown of writer Sun Junqing (孙俊卿), whose 1962 work about the hope for a better year of farming in 1963 after the Great Chinese Famine is part of the Putonghua Proficiency Test.