Jieshi Mountain

Jieshi Mountain is one of the forty-seven national 3A scenic areas of Binzhou, a prefecture on the south-west shore of Bohai Bay whose whole shape is a single slope. The ground falls from southwest to northeast. South of the Xiaoqing River the Changbai mountains of southern Zouping end at Mohe Peak, 826.8 metres, the highest point in the prefecture, with gently sloping alluvial ground below them; north of the river the Yellow River alluvium lies at 1 to 20 metres and goes on into tidal flat. The prefecture counts sixty-eight rated scenic areas in all, nine of them 4A, and Jieshi Mountain is listed with the Liquan Temple scenic area in the 3A group. Around it lie the shell ridges, reed beds and salt ground of the Bohai shore.