Laiwu, originally a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province (officially abolished in January 2019), is now Laiwu District, Jinan, Shandong Province.
Laiwu is located in the center of Shandong Province, east of Mount Tai and west of Mount Yimeng, Laiwu depends on the remnants of Mount Tai in the north, the Feedback Mountain Range in the south, and Mount Lu and Mount Yimeng in the east, which is a semicircular basin surrounded by mountains in the north, east, and south, and we call it the Tailai Plain.
The unique geographic environment determines Laiwu historically as a place of war. During the Spring and Autumn period, the famous Qi and Lu "long spoon battle" took place here, as well as the liberation war period "Laiwu battle".
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Laiwu was founded in the Western Han Dynasty. p>Laiwu officially got its name during the Western Han Dynasty, and has undergone several changes since then. Later, it became famous for its iron ore resources, and became the smelting center of Shandong during the Song and Jin dynasties. After the Ming Dynasty, its geographic and economic status was particularly emphasized, and it was successively attached to Tai'an Prefecture, Jinan Province and Tai'an Province, and became a city under provincial jurisdiction in 1928.
Laiwu was abolished as a county and set up as a city in 1983, which was under provincial jurisdiction and was administered by Tai'an; it was officially upgraded from a county-level city to a prefecture-level city in 1992. In this process, Laiwu can become the smallest prefecture-level city in Shandong, the main reason is: the continuation of its Shandong, the national smelting center of the special position, which is now often referred to as the "steel city".
Laiwu was an important iron smelting center in China in the 1960s, and is Shandong's iron and steel production and deep-processing base, the "national new materials industrialization base", and is the "hometown of Chinese ginger" and "hometown of golden peaches in China". The hometown of golden peach".
In January 2019, the State Council approved the Shandong Province to adjust the administrative division of Jinan Laiwu City, abolish the city of Laiwu, the area under its jurisdiction to the jurisdiction of Jinan; the establishment of Jinan Laiwu District, the former Laiwu Laicheng District of Laiwu City for the Laiwu District of the administrative area; the establishment of the Jinan Steel Town, the former Laiwu Steel Town of Steel Town for the administrative area of the Steel District of Jinan City.
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