Rushan City, thus named because of huge Rushan Mountain (breast-shaped mountain) inside its territory, covers an area of 1668 square kilometers, contains a population of 574,000 and under its jurisdiction administers two development zones of provincial class, 14 towns, one sub-district office and 601 villages. Rushan is a newly rising coastal city with a short history on merely 50 odds years since its institution as a county. In the period of over 10 years since the city institution from removal of formal county in 1993, Rushan has witnessed dramatic growth and development, now standing among the top 100 counties in term of overall development, the top 100 counties in term of economic competitive power the top 100 medium-small sized cities in term of comprehensive force nation wide.
Favorable in geographic position: Over looking Japan and the Republic of Korea across sea and situated at the junction of the three municipalities of Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai, it boasts facilitated communication and transportation by sea, land and air with Qingdao-Weihai Super Highway, the 309th National Highway, Jinan-Weihai Railway crossing its territory, and one and half hours drive away from the city proper to the above 3 municipalities respectively. In particular, along with the construction and completion of the coastal expressway around the peninsula and the tourist route around the sea, the unique advantage of Rushan’s geographic position becomes increasingly outstanding.
Perfect in infrastructure: In recent years, a total amount of 20 billion yuan has been successively invested into infrastructure construction. Facilities of public utilities of water, electricity, road, heat and telecommunication are rather complete and perfect. The local highly network composed of 4 longitudinal ones and 4 latitudinal ones as well as one circle road has taken shape. The rate of centralized treatment of urban sewage has reached 75 per cent, the innocuous treatment of household garbage reached 100 percent and coverage of green beautification in the urban district reached 40 per cent. Its economic development zone and Yintan tourism vocational zone both of provincial class, with their perfect infrastructure, increment of carrying capacity and prominent drawing functions, have come to be the mainstays in the process of Rushan’s dedication to building a burgeoning industrial belt along Qingdao- Weihai Super Highly as well as a coastal tourism belt.
Abundant in natural resources: Its coastal line running 185 kilometers long, which annually yields over 200,000 tons of marine products, Rushan is a littoral city renowned for its shellfishes and precious sea fishes. Featured by vast hilly land grown with fruit trees, Rushan annually harvests over 200,000 tons of fruits of various kinds, hence a major fruit growing base in Jiaodong. Rushan, teeming with gold and silver, has long been titled as “golden hills and silvery beaches”. It annually yields 100,000 liang of gold, ranking the 5th position in the country.
Picturesque in natural environment: It boasts Juyu Natural Forest Park, the National AAAA grade Yintan Tourism Vacational Zone titled as “the first beach on earth”, Tangshang Hot Spring, constituting an integrity featured of one mountain, one beach and one spring as well as such landscapes and scenic spots as Darushan Mountain, Sanctuary of Taoism, Sacred Water Temple. A number of large recreational and entertainment projects have been or yet to be completed such as Darushan Leisure Vacation Zone, Juyushan Landscape, the Oriental Ruyi International Metropolis, Gold Culture Garden, Furudonghai (Fortune and happiness as great as the eastern sea) Culture Garden. Therefore tourist industry is coming to be Rushan’s newly prospering one. By virtue of its excellent natural and artificial environments as well, Rushan has been conferred as “The National Model City in Environmental Protection”” China’s Excellent Tourism City” and botanical garden like city of provincial class. Rushan stands among the cities most habitable for human being.
Fast in regional development: In 2004, Rushan stood among top 100 powerful counties in terms of comprehensive force and ranked 54th in 2006. In 2007, it ranked 35th among the top 100 medium-small sized cities in term of comprehensive force nation wide. The total output value for 2007 reached up to 25.4 billion yuan, 17% higher than that of the corresponding period of previous year; regional financial revenue 1.54 billion yuan, up 22.2%; local financial revenue 1.05 billion, up 18%. While strengthening economic construction, cultural and social construction has also advanced accordingly. In recent years, it has successively won such titles as “One of the top 50 Excellent Cities in terms of Social Security and Sincerity Nation Wide” “One of China’s Top 200 Glamorous Cities” “China’s Advanced Cities in terms of Science and Technology”, “China’s Model City for Science Popularization”, “China’s Model City for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization”, “Shandong’s Advanced City with respect to Public Security Maintenance”, etc.
