Jiaozhou city belongs to Qingdao, Shandong Province, located in the southwest of Shandong Peninsula and the northwest coast of Jiaozhou Bay. It is adjacent to Chengyang District and Jimo District in the east, gaomi city and Zhucheng City in the west, Huangdao District in the south and Li Anping in the north, with a total area of 1.324 square kilometers.
Jiaozhou has a history of more than 5000 years. Banqiao was built in the Tang Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, ports prospered and maritime trade continued to prosper. It is the only foreign trade port north of the Yangtze River, one of the five major commercial ports in China, and an important node of the Maritime Silk Road.
Most markets are located in central towns, temple resorts and urban fringe areas, with moderate location and convenient transportation; It can also be extended to trading places or settlements, called market towns.
Rural market town is the basic unit of economic spatial network, and it is at the lower level of central place in the concept of central place system. Because of its special function and scale, it has both connections and differences with towns in the general sense. Market towns are mainly economic activities, based on their economic functions.
It is the starting point of rural commodity purchase and the end point of commodity sales, and it is responsible for the functions of rural means of production and means of subsistence, as well as the acquisition and trading of agricultural products. Generally speaking, there are special trading places in market towns. For the convenience of management and transaction, all kinds of data are concentrated in a certain range, not interfering with each other, but integrated.