Yantai Brief Introduction

Infiltrating into a long history, Yantai was called Zhifu in the ancient times. In 200 B.C. the first emperor of China once shot fish here with bows drawn and arrows set, formingafterwards “the fish shooting platform”. For fighting against the sea rovers, the Ming Dynasty set up the beacon-fire stand in the year of 1398 and Chinese “Yantai” hereby achieved her nomenclature. And Yantai became one of the first ports that opened up to the outside in 1861.