Rizhao.

Rizhao is a prefecture-level city on the Yellow Sea coast in southeastern Shandong, and its name means the place where the first light of the sun arrives. It keeps that claim literally: the city averages 2,310 hours of bright sunshine a year, and since the early 1990s it has required solar water heaters in every new building. It covers 5,359 square kilometres with two urban districts and two counties, and the 2020 census counted 2,968,365 residents, 61 per cent of them living in towns. The economy rests on the water: the Port of Rizhao, a fishing industry of more than eighty kinds of economic fish, and a coast that also carries the country's Olympic water park.

Rizhao: the seaside plaza and its sculpture on the waterfront.
Rizhao: the seaside plaza and its sculpture on the waterfront.

Rizhao

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  1. Rizhao: the seaside plaza and its sculpture on the waterfront.Iswzo / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
  2. Rizhao: the seaside plaza on the coast.Iswzo / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗