Guangrao County is located in the south of Lubei plain, the yellow river delta and Dongying City. It is 42 kilometers long from north to south and 53 kilometers wide from west to east,with a total area of 1138 square kilometers. To its east is Weifang city, to its west is Bingzhou city, to its south is Zibo city, to it north is Dongying city and to its northeast is Bohai laizhou bay. Guangrao has a total coastline of 11.86 kilometers. Under the jurisdiction of Guangrao, there are 10 towns,2 offices and 533 villages with a total population of 4.8 million people.

Guangrao was named Le’an in the ancient time. It has a long history of civilization and the ancient cultural traditions have brought forth many noted historic figures. For one example, Le’an is the home of Sun Wu(also name Sunzi), a great military strategist of the Autumn period whose the Art of War has become a world-recognized “strategy class-ic”and is still widely applied both in China and abroad in military and economic affairs. Fujia site(archaeological finding) indicates that as long as 5700 years ago, there were human beings multiplying here. Their culture is named Da Wenkou culture now. The numerous ancient traces and human sigh-ts let Guangrao have abundant tourism resources The Nansong palace locating at the south of Guangrao county is the best saved and the earliest wooden architecture, and it is also the state-level protected cultural relic.Boqin Dais locating at the east of the ancient Le'an is the site of the Le’an,which is a city of the State of Qi during the Autumn Period(770B.C.-476B.C.),It is known as the first dais of Qilu.

With the glorious revolutionary tradition, Guangrao already has had the party members in 1923.The Yanji and Liuji branch of Chinese community built in 1925 is one of the earliest village party branches 'Communist Manifesto' measured up in Guangrao county museum is the earliest Chinese translation version.

The flat area, pleasant climate and rich water res-ources let Guangrao county enjoy the abundant natural resources. Guangrao has been well known for its wide seashore, rich water and fish. Eecept that, it also holds the rich oil, natural gas and unde-rground brine resources.Its land is long and wide including 7.4 million of arable land,0.7 million of un-cultivated saline and 1.5 million of grassland.

Guangrao enjoys the advantageous geographic location and convenient transportation. To its south is Jiaoji railway,Jiqing highway. To its north is Dongying port, Guangli port, Dongying airport, Dongqin-g expressway and around Bohai railway. 8 trunk lines of province-level go through Guangrao County.

Guangrao has the perfect infrastructure and good environment for investment. In recent years, Shanghai has been putting much effort To carry out 'Industry-strengthened', 'Agriculture-oriented', 'foreign-direct' and 'Urban construction' strategy. The county’s economy and all other projects are developing with a good trend of “aiming at the advanced enterprises and surpassing them” in 2005 Guangrao county had been keeping a good trend of continual development, The total GDP reached RMB15.5 billion, The domestic financial income hit RMB0.99 billion and the local financial revenue hit RMB0.99 billion. Guangrao is one of the top 30 co-unties of Shandong province and occupys the 80th place of the 100 top counties of the country.