Haiyang

Haiyang
海阳市
Location in Yantai
Location in Yantai
Haiyang is located in Shandong
Haiyang
Haiyang
Location in Shandong
Coordinates: 36°46′45″N 121°10′05″E / 36.77917°N 121.16806°E / 36.77917; 121.16806
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceShandong
Prefecture-level cityYantai
Area
 • Total
1,886 km2 (728 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total
658,000
 • Density350/km2 (900/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
265100
Websitewww.haiyang.gov.cn (in Chinese)

Haiyang (simplified Chinese: 海阳; traditional Chinese: 海陽; pinyin: Hǎiyáng), is a coastal city in the Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Its name translates directly to "ocean" (海) and "sun" (阳) in Mandarin. It is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yantai and was the host city for the 2012 Asian Beach Games.

It is also the site of the new Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant and in 2021, became China's first city to fully utilize nuclear energy for its district heating system.[2][3] Haiyang is the hometown of writer Sun Junqing (孙俊卿),[4] whose 1962 work about the hope for a better year of farming in 1963 after the Great Chinese Famine is part of the Putonghua Proficiency Test.[5]

  1. ^ a b 中国•海阳概况 [Introduction to Haiyang, China] (in Simplified Chinese). Haiyang government website. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  2. ^ NucNet. Ground Broken At Site Of China’s Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. 30 July 2008.
  3. ^ Belgium, Central Office, NucNet a s b l , Brussels (30 September 2021). "China / City Of Haiyang 'First In Country' To Have District Heating System Powered By Nuclear". The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency. Retrieved 12 October 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ 海阳市筹建峻青文学艺术馆 今年10月有望开馆 [Haiyang city preparing to build Junqing Literature & Art Museum, to be opened to the public this October] (in Simplified Chinese). Fenghuang Shandong. Retrieved 8 December 2017. 峻青,原名孙俊卿,1922年出生于烟台海阳市郭城镇西楼子村,当代著名作家、画家。
  5. ^ 普通话水平测试实施纲要. Commercial Press. 2003. p. 342–343.