Yantai Economic and Technological Development Area (YEDA) (Chinese: 烟台经济技术开发区), is an economic development zone established in 1984 in Shandong Province, China. It is near the Yellow Sea coast, and administratively under Yantai Prefecture. It covers 228 km2 and has a population of 400,000.[1] Before its creation, most of the area were fishing villages. Now it is an industrial and famous tourist site in Shandong