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Yantai Westerners Web Site |
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Welcome to first web site based in Yantai for Westerners. The site is intended as a reference for places of interest, restaurants to visit, facts about Yantai, upcomomng events and generally speaking, any events, articles, photos or items you might think of interest to us. All items can be sent to mailto:mikeamtmann@yahoo.co.uk or mailto:conglixia@hotmail.com Yantai Yantai is a busy ice-free port on the Northern coast of the Shandong peninsula. It has a population of around 6 500 000. Yantai started life as a defense outpost and fishing village. It opened for foreign trade in 1862, but had no foreign concessions. Several nations, Japan and the USA among them, had trading establishments here and Yantai was something of a resort area at one time. Since 1949 the port and naval base have been expanded and, apart from fishing and trading, the town is a major producer of wines, spirits and fruits. Yantai means Smoke Terrace: wolf-dung fires were lit on the headland to warn fishing fleets of approaching pirates.
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