Zhaoyuan 招远市 Chaoyuan | |
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 Location in Yantai | |
  Zhaoyuan Location in Shandong | |
| Coordinates:37°21′32.40″N120°23′45.60″E / 37.3590000°N 120.3960000°E /37.3590000; 120.3960000 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Shandong |
| Prefecture-level city | Yantai |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,432.32 km2 (553.02 sq mi) |
| Population (2019) | |
• Total | 560,234 |
| • Density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 265400 |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 招遠 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 招远 | ||||||||
| Postal | Chaoyuan | ||||||||
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Zhaoyuan (simplified Chinese:招远市;traditional Chinese:招遠市;pinyin:Zhāoyuǎn Shì) is acounty-level city within theprefecture-level city ofYantai,Shandong Province,China, located on theBohai Sea.[1] Zhaoyuan is well known for its abundant gold deposit and production, and is occasionally nicknamed "China's gold capital" (simplified Chinese:中国金都;traditional Chinese:中國金都).[2][3]
The city spans an area of 1,432.32 square kilometres (553.02 sq mi),[4] and has a population of 560,234 as of 2019.[5]
The area was first incorporated under theHan dynasty as Qucheng County (simplified Chinese:曲成县;traditional Chinese:曲成縣).[6]
Gold was discovered at Zhaoyuan in theTang dynasty.[citation needed] The myth accompanying the city's discovery of gold is that a giant tortoise namedAo once told villagers struggling with famine to dig, and upon digging, they struck gold.[2]
The county was named Zhaoyuan County (simplified Chinese:招远县;traditional Chinese:招遠縣) in 1131.[6]
Fivetownships in Zhaoyuan were upgraded totowns on September 1, 1988.[6]
On December 21, 1991, Zhaoyuan was upgraded from acounty to acounty-level city.[6]
Throughout the mid-1990s, three more townships were upgraded to towns.[6]
On January 11, 1999, the town of Zhaocheng (simplified Chinese:招城镇;traditional Chinese:招城鎮) was divided into threesubdistricts:Luofeng Subdistrict [zh],Quanshan Subdistrict, andMengzhi Subdistrict [zh].[6]
TheFifth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China reported that Zhaoyuan had a population of 593,705.[6]
On December 19, 2000, Dahuchenjia Township (simplified Chinese:大户陈家乡;traditional Chinese:大戶陳家鄉) became the city's last township to be upgraded to a town.[6]
In late May 2014, five members ofThe Church of Almighty God, an outlawed new-age cult, entered aMcDonald's in Zhaoyuan and began soliciting customers' phone numbers.[7] When 37 year-old Wu Shuoyan refused to give her phone number to the group, they claimed she was an "evil spirit", and began beating her with chairs and a metal mop handle, ultimately killing her.[7] In February 2015, two of the attackers were executed, and the other three received jail sentences ranging from seven years to life.[8]
Zhaoyuan's city center is located approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) southwest of Yantai's urban center.[4] The city's terrain is higher in the northeast, middle and west, and lower in the northwest and southeast[4]
The city's annual average temperature is 11 °C (52 °F), and its annual average precipitation is 607.3 millimetres (23.91 in).[4]
| Climate data for Zhaoyuan, elevation 118 m (387 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.4 (57.9) | 20.5 (68.9) | 28.1 (82.6) | 33.7 (92.7) | 36.8 (98.2) | 40.6 (105.1) | 37.8 (100.0) | 35.6 (96.1) | 34.4 (93.9) | 30.1 (86.2) | 24.5 (76.1) | 18.2 (64.8) | 40.6 (105.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) | 5.4 (41.7) | 11.8 (53.2) | 18.9 (66.0) | 24.9 (76.8) | 28.8 (83.8) | 30.5 (86.9) | 29.8 (85.6) | 26.3 (79.3) | 19.9 (67.8) | 11.8 (53.2) | 4.5 (40.1) | 17.9 (64.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.2 (28.0) | 0.0 (32.0) | 5.5 (41.9) | 12.5 (54.5) | 18.7 (65.7) | 22.9 (73.2) | 25.7 (78.3) | 25.2 (77.4) | 20.9 (69.6) | 14.1 (57.4) | 6.6 (43.9) | 0.1 (32.2) | 12.5 (54.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.9 (21.4) | −4.2 (24.4) | 0.5 (32.9) | 6.9 (44.4) | 13.1 (55.6) | 18.0 (64.4) | 21.9 (71.4) | 21.5 (70.7) | 16.4 (61.5) | 9.3 (48.7) | 2.5 (36.5) | −3.5 (25.7) | 8.0 (46.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −16.5 (2.3) | −15.1 (4.8) | −9.8 (14.4) | −4.4 (24.1) | 3.4 (38.1) | 9.9 (49.8) | 14.3 (57.7) | 12.9 (55.2) | 7.1 (44.8) | −1.4 (29.5) | −6.6 (20.1) | −12.5 (9.5) | −16.5 (2.3) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 7.3 (0.29) | 10.9 (0.43) | 13.0 (0.51) | 28.5 (1.12) | 53.2 (2.09) | 68.6 (2.70) | 180.6 (7.11) | 158.5 (6.24) | 53.1 (2.09) | 27.3 (1.07) | 24.6 (0.97) | 12.1 (0.48) | 637.7 (25.1) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.2 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 5.1 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 77.9 |
| Average snowy days | 7.8 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | 7.3 | 24.1 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 66 | 62 | 55 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 81 | 73 | 69 | 68 | 67 | 67 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 169.3 | 174.4 | 229.2 | 243.0 | 270.1 | 239.7 | 202.4 | 204.1 | 213.7 | 211.8 | 170.9 | 160.5 | 2,489.1 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 55 | 57 | 62 | 61 | 61 | 54 | 46 | 49 | 58 | 62 | 57 | 54 | 56 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[9][10] | |||||||||||||
Zhaoyuan administers fivesubdistricts and ninetowns.[11]
Zhaoyuan's five subdistricts areLuofeng Subdistrict [zh],Quanshan Subdistrict,Mengzhi Subdistrict [zh],Wenquan Subdistrict [zh], andDaqinjia Subdistrict [zh].[11]
Zhaoyuan's nine towns areXinzhuang [zh],Canzhuang [zh],Jinling [zh],Biguo [zh],Linglong [zh],Zhangxing [zh],Xiadian [zh],Fushan [zh], andQishan [zh].[11]
The city has a significant amount ofgold deposits, largely concentrated in its northeast.[4]Zhaojin Mining has its headquarters located in the city.[12] Additionally,Linglong Tire is headquartered in the city.[13]
National Highway 206 runs through Zhaoyuan.[1]
A large golden statue ofAo, a Chinese mythical giant turtle is located in thevillage of Oujiakuang (Chinese:欧家夼村;pinyin:Ōujiākuǎng Cūn), in the town ofLinglong [zh].[14][15] Located in Luoshan National Forest Park (simplified Chinese:罗山国家森林公园;traditional Chinese:羅山國家森林公園),[14] the statue is Asia's largest statue of Ao, and is located at37°27′36″N120°28′22″E / 37.46000°N 120.47278°E /37.46000; 120.47278.[citation needed] The statue is 15 meters tall and 20 meters long.[16][17][better source needed]
TheQucheng Ancient City Site [zh] is located in Zhaoyuan.[1]