Yantai

Yantai, once in the past known as Zhifu or Chefoo, is a prefecture level city on the Bohai Strait in northeastern Shandong Province, China. Lying on the southern bank of the Korea Bay, Yantai outskirts Qingdao on the southwest and Weihai on the east. It is the biggest angling seaport in Shandong. Its populace was 6,968,202 amid the 2010 registration, of whom 2,227,733 lived in the developed region made up of the 4 urban areas of Zhifu, Muping, Fushan, and Laishan.

The name Yantai gets from the watchtowers built on Mount Qi in 1398 under the rule of the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming tradition. Amid the Xia and Shang traditions, the district was occupied by indigenous people groups dubiously referred to the Chinese as the "Eastern Barbarians". Under the Zhou, they were colonized and sinicized as the territory of Lai. Lai was attached by Qi in 567 BC. Under the First Emperor,the territory was regulated as the Qi Commandery.

Under the Han, this was renamed as the Donglai Commandery. Following the Three Kingdoms Period, the zone was composed by the Jin as the Donglai Kingdom or Principality, later coming back to prefecture status as a jun and afterward zhou. Under the Tang and amid the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, it was known as Deng Prefecture and sorted out with the Henan Circuit. It was then sorted out as the Laizhou and after that, under the Qing, Dengzhou Commandery.