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Dongying 东营Dōngyíng
Where the Yellow River meets the sea, among oil wells and storks
About Dongying
Dongying is one of Shandong's youngest cities, founded in 1983 on the Shengli Oilfield, where oil was found in 1961 and pumps still nod beside the fields. At the Yellow River Estuary Eco-Tourism Area the river reaches the Bohai Sea and silt keeps building new land; the delta reserve shelters migrating birds, including the largest breeding population of the Oriental stork, and turns red with seepweed in autumn. Inland, Guangrao's Sun Tzu shrine centres on a hall built in 1128 as a Guandi temple.
What to eat in Dongying
- Lijin pan-fried buns (利津水煎包)
- Guangrao donkey meat (广饶肴驴肉)
Listed sites in Dongying
10 sites in Dongying are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Yellow River Estuary Eco-Tourism Area 黄河口生态旅游区 5A scenic area
This 5A area is the visitor section of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, where the Yellow River meets the Bohai Sea on some of China's youngest land. - Gudao Locust Forest, Hekou 孤岛槐树林温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
Gudao Locust Forest is a large locust-tree plantation on the Yellow River delta, in Gudao town, Hekou district, made into a 4A scenic area with an entrance gate, a visitor centre, boardwalks, a festival square and a waterside food street. - Hongtan Wetland 红滩湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
Hongtan Wetland is a coastal tourist area in Kenli district, on the Bohai shore behind a seawall at the edge of broad tidal mudflats. - Lancuihu Resort, Dongying 揽翠湖旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
Lancuihu is a lakeside leisure area on the south-west edge of Dongying city, rated 4A in 2015, whose lawns and lakeshore are used for camping and a lawn music season. - Mingcuihu Wetland, Hekou 鸣翠湖湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
Mingcuihu is a large lake and wetland park on the edge of Hekou's new town, designed around the themes of the Yellow River, oil, the sea and wetlands. - Red Liuji, Guangrao 红色刘集 4A scenic area · on the map
Liuji is a village in Dawang town, Guangrao, that was home to one of the earliest rural Communist Party branches in Shandong, which kept and used a first-edition Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto, as local government pages tell it. - Sunzi Culture Tourism Area, Guangrao 孙子文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
The Sunzi Culture Tourism Area is a themed leisure district on Sunwu Lake in Guangrao's new eastern district, devoted to Sun Wu (Sun Tzu), author of The Art of War, whom Guangrao claims as a native son. - Tianning Temple, Kenli 天宁寺 4A scenic area · on the map
Tianning Temple is a large modern Buddhist temple complex in the west of Kenli district, built beside the Tianning Lake wetland park; its main hall was consecrated in 2013 and the area was rated 4A in 2014. - Yellow River Delta Zoo 黄河三角洲动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
The Yellow River Delta Zoo is an urban zoo on the south-west side of Dongying, opened in the early 2010s on about 1,000 mu (roughly 65 hectares) of land. - Guangrao Guandi Temple Main Hall 广饶关帝庙大殿 National heritage site
This Southern Song timber hall, first built in 1128 as the main hall of a Guan Yu temple, is described by the city culture bureau as the only surviving Song-period timber hall in Shandong; it now serves as the main hall of the Sun Wu Shrine.
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