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History
Shandong has been one of the political, economic and cultural center areas of China since ancient times. The earliest legends of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors had multiple stops in Shandong. During the Xia Dynasty in the 21st century B.C., various tribes of the Eastern Barbarians were active in the Shandong region. The early center of activity of the Shang Dynasty (about 17th century B.C. - 11th century B.C.) was in present-day southwestern Shandong.
The famous Qi and Lu states of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770 BC - 221 BC) were the largest vassal states of the Western Zhou Dynasty (ca. 11th century BC - 256 BC) in present-day Shandong. Because of the great influence of the developed economy, politics and culture of Qi and Lu in Chinese history, Shandong is also known as the "State of Qi and Lu", and "Lu" is the abbreviation for Shandong Province.
The state of Qi was powerful and rich in fishing and salt; the state of Lu had many celebrities and was known as the state of etiquette. Shandong as a geographic name began in the Warring States period, when it referred to the area east of the Taihang Mountains. Shandong as a political name, began in the Jin Dynasty (AD 1115--1234).
Shandong Province now has 17 cities under its jurisdiction, which can only be regarded as small and medium-sized cities in the country's cities The terrain of Shandong Province is characterized by rising mountains in the central part of the province, gently undulating hilly areas in the east and south, and flat Yellow River alluvial plains in the north and northwestern part of the province, which is part of the Great Plain of North China.
Shandong Province in general resembles a diamond shape, with the longest length of about 700 kilometers from east to west and the widest width of 420 kilometers from north to south, with a total land area of 156,700 square kilometers, accounting for about 1.6 percent of the country's total area and ranking nineteenth in the country. The population is more than 94 million, accounting for the second largest in the country, the first is Henan, with a population of 99.7 million.
Economy
Special geographic location makes Shandong Province the intersection of the economic belt along the Yellow River and the Bohai Sea Economic Zone, and the combination of North China and East China, occupying an important position in the national economic pattern. Booming Financial System Shandong's financial and insurance industry is developing rapidly.
A financial system has been formed with the People's Bank of China (PBOC) as the central bank, state-owned commercial banks as the main body, separation of policy and commercial finance, and the coexistence and development of a variety of financial institutions. Among the Chinese-funded institutions, all national policy banks and state-owned commercial banks have branches in Shandong Province, and 10 national joint-stock commercial banks have also set up branches in Shandong.
In addition, Shandong Province also has the Yantai Housing and Savings Bank, eight city commercial banks, and 2,119 rural credit unions. Basically formed a relatively complete institutions, function more perfect financial organization system. Foreign banks are optimistic about Shandong's financial market.
At present, in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, there are branches of Hong Kong HSBC, Japan Yamaguchi Bank, Qingdao International Bank, and offices of Hong Kong Standard Chartered Bank, U.S. Citibank, and Hong Kong Bank of East Asia.
Colorful Cultural Life
Shandong Province gives full play to the advantages of Qilu culture and vigorously develops cultural undertakings. Traditional local opera in Shandong Province has Lv Opera, Liuzi, Bang Bang, Wuyin, Sipingtong and other local opera and Shandong Quick Book, Shandong qinshu, drums and other varieties of music and dance **** more than 30 kinds of folk music and dance more than 260 kinds of drums rice-planting songs, Jiaozhou rice-planting songs and Haiyang rice-planting songs and known as the "Shandong three big rice-planting songs".
Folk art to Weifang woodblock prints, folk paper-cutting, peasant painting as a representative of a wide range of characteristics by the end of 1999, the province has all kinds of performing arts organizations 118, 107 performing arts venues, public **** 131 libraries, public art museums, cultural centers, 158 museums, 59 museums, 93 cultural relics protection agencies, 184 archives.
In recent years, Shandong Province has successively organized the Shandong Cultural Festival, the Farmers' Culture and Art Festival, Lv Opera Performance, Top Ten Cultural Square Selection, Qilu Folk Square Art Exhibition, "Culture to the Countryside" and "Double Holiday Voluntary Exhibition" and other mass cultural activities, enriching people's cultural life. The program has enriched the cultural life of the people.
Shandong has 15 counties (cities, districts) was named by the Ministry of Culture as "China's folk art township", there are two cities and four counties were named "national cultural model areas, the number of the country's first.
The province also evaluated 42 advanced social and cultural counties. By the end of 1998, the province's eight literary works by the Ministry of Culture, "Wenhua Award", the new repertoire award, 25 literary and artistic workers by the Ministry of Culture, "Wenhua Award" individual awards, two people won the Peking Opera, "Meilanfang Gold Medal "Peking Opera" Meilanfang Gold Medal, 7 people won the theater "Plum Blossom Award".