Qingdao is a prefecture-level city of Shandong that lies across the Shandong Peninsula and looks out to the Yellow Sea; it borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest. The built-up area of its seven urban districts had 7,172,451 inhabitants at the 2020 census, and the permanent resident population of the whole city was 10.1057 million that year. The city covers 10,654 square kilometres and has a coastline of 730.64 kilometres. In 1897 it was ceded to Germany, and the Kiautschou Bay concession existed from 1898 to 1914 over an area of 552 square kilometres; construction of the Jiaoji Railway began on 23 September 1899 and was completed in 1904. Its historic German-style architecture and its Tsingtao Brewery remain the visible legacies of that lease.
The name of Badaguan promises German years, but most of its villas are from the 1930s. What the district really keeps is a plan: eight passes for street names, one species of tree on each road, and a building limit of fifty per cent.
An Anglo-German company opened a brewery in a leased Chinese port in 1903; the lager it brewed for the Germans of that coast is now sold in 62 countries and accounts for half of China's beer exports.
Read
Qingdao's first wharf is 440 metres of timber jetty with a pavilion at its end, and the octagonal image of that pavilion is the trademark drawn on a beer bottle.
Read
A 45-hectare Olympic sailing venue raised on the yard of a state shipyard, where eleven events were sailed in the summer of 2008 and where a 534-metre breakwater is still called Lover's Dam.
ReadA district of villas and garden streets between the beaches of Shinan, named for eight passes of ancient China and lined, street by street, with a single species of tree.
A brewery founded in 1903 inside the German leased territory, now China's second largest and the source of half of the country's beer exports.
A 440-metre timber pier, the city's first wharf, with the octagonal Huilan Pavilion that is the trademark of Tsingtao Brewery.
The 45-hectare venue on Fushan Bay, raised on the yard of a state shipyard for the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events of 2008.
