Rizhao is named after "the first ray of sunrise". It is a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province, located in the southeast of Shandong Province, facing Japan and South Korea across the Yellow Sea in the east, Linyi in the west, Qingdao and Weifang in the north and Lianyungang in the south.
Rizhao is an ecological, livable, tourist, modern port city and industrial base in China, and it is also a part of Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration, Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone and Jiaodong Economic Zone.
Rizhao has a long coastline of 168.5 km, and has two natural ports, Shijiu Bay and Fushouwan, as well as a port group consisting of Rizhao Port and Lanshan Port. It is known as "Water Sports Capital" and "Oriental Sun City". Won the UN Habitat Award for its excellent environment.
Overview of Rizhao tourist attractions;
Rizhao is rich in tourism resources and is known as "blue sky, blue sea and golden beach". In recent years, the environmental advantages of first-class atmosphere, first-class seawater and drinking water 100% have been maintained; There are 64 kilometers of high-quality beaches on the 100-kilometer coastline of China, which is praised by experts as "the only unpolluted gold coast in China".
There are the newly developed Olympic Water Sports Park, the famous Lunan Seashore National Forest Park, Wanpingkou Seashore Tourist Area, and Wulian Mountain, Jiuxian Mountain, First Bamboo in Jiangbei, and Fulai Mountain Scenic Area in Juxian County.
"Enriching people's tourism" has achieved remarkable results. With the implementation of the strategy of "enriching the city by tourism", Rizhao City has been identified as "the founding unit of national tourism demonstration zone" and "the first batch of founding units of national healthy tourism demonstration zone of traditional Chinese medicine". In the whole year, 20 key tourism projects were completed 120, and 30 were completed.
During the year, 4A-level scenic spots 1 scenic spot, 7 3A-level scenic spots, 7 2A-level scenic spots and 7 new travel agencies were added. At the end of the year, there were 64 A-level scenic spots, 0/55 travel agencies, 20 star-rated hotels and 2 provincial-level tourist resorts in the city. There are 1 provincial tourist counties, 2 1 strong towns and 54 characteristic villages.
There are 4 national leisure fishery demonstration parks, 2 provincial parks 12, 25 municipal parks, 4 national marine pastures, 9 provincial parks, 4 provincial leisure fishery demonstration bases, 8 municipal parks, boutique campsites 1 each, 3 ski resorts and 4 wedding tourism bases.