Jiaozhou, obtaining the name from Jiaoshui, is located by Yellow Sea and Jiaozhou Bay. In February 1987, Jiaozhou was authorized by the State coumil to be the first city replacing county in Qingdao and enlisted in the first batch of open coastal cities in Shandong Province. At present, it is in charge of 13 towns, 5 sub-district offices and 811 administrative villages. It has a total land area of 1210 km2, 45 km2 of which are the urban constructive area. The coastline is 25 km. Jiaozhou possesses a population of 1,100,000 with the recorded population is 790,000 and the urban population is 450,000. It is ranked the 19th in the economic competitive general capacity and scientific development general evaluation among all the state counties and honored with several titles, such as the State Sanitary City, the Model Environment Protection City, State Gardening City and leading City in Scientific and technological Work.

With a long history, Jiaozhou is one of the origins of Chinese ancient civilization and created the world famous Sanlihe civilization. In Tang and Song Dynasties Jiaozhou was one of the 5 biggest nationwide commercial ports. It was also the only trading port to the north of the Yangtze River .It was habitually entiled “Golden Jiaozhou” for its flourishing commerce and trade.

Jiaozhou has been granted successively honor titles, such as the State Protection Farming Demonstrate City, the State Testing Soil Fertilizing Examine City, the State Green Agriculture Construction Demonstrate City, the Unique State New Country Electrization Testing City in Shandong Province and the Advanced City of Agricultural Industrilization of Shandong Province.

Jiaozhou enjoys exceptional advantages for developing logistic industry. It has convenient traffic conditions. Being in the center of all the seaports of Shandong Peninsula, Jiaozhou is a hub for goods in and out of the manufacturing base of Shandong peninsula.

Jiaozhou is well-known for its brilliant culture, abundant celebrities and rich culture heritages.