Preface

Qinhuangdao, the place where the Great Wall meets the sea, was named after Emperor Shihuang, the founder of the Qin Dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China, visited it in 215 BC.It is the only city named after an emperor's title.A majestic poem, Waves Washing Sand • Beidaihe, made Qinhuangdao famous at home and abroad.It is neither severely cold in winter nor extremely hot in summer.There is smooth sand and gentle slope along the coastline.The ancient Great Wall, with a length of 223km, stretches across the whole area of Qinhuangdao.The blue sky, green land, blue sea and golden sand form a perfect contrast.Qinhuangdao is a world-famous summer resort for tourism, vacation and leisure.

As one of the first batch of China's coastal open cities, Qinhuangdao has Qinhuangdao Port, China's important comprehensive international port and also world's largest international energy export port.Except for the largest domestic production and processing base of aluminum products and the largest grain and oil processing base in northern China, Qinhuangdao also has global manufacturing bases of automobile hubs, the processing base for fire-fighting electronics, the production base for national high-quality dry red wine, the domestic export base for heavy equipment, the million-ton shipbuilding base, and the data industry base.It has been awarded the titles of China Top 100 Cities for Investment Environment, China First Batch of Excellent Tourist Cities, National Civilized City, National Forest City, National Garden City, National Top 10 Livable Cities, China's Happiest City and National Demonstration City of Strong Quality.These “name cards” have injected strong impetus into the development of Qinhuangdao, and promoted Qinhuangdao to realize the goal of becoming a strong coastal city, a beautiful port city and an international city in the new era.

Hometown culture is a good carrier to influence and educate the younger generation.For this, the Municipal Committee of the Youth League has sorted out the excellent natural, historical, and cultural resources of Qinhuangdao and compiled a reference book for them to understand Qinhuangdao and carry out the education of hometown culture among them.

The editors of My Lovely Hometown: Qinhuangdao summarized the natural geography and cultural history of Qinhuangdao with full and accurate materials, sketched the beauty of Qinhuangdao, and explained the culture of Qinhuangdao in simple writing style.Here, young readers can understand their hometown's magnificent and beautiful natural scenery, long history and profound culture, vigorous development trend and brilliant future vision, so as to better know and love their hometown, and deeply understand their role and mission in the construction of their hometown.

“With profound knowledge and wide mind, people can realize their dreams.” Young people are the future builders and successors of Qinhuangdao.We hope that through the influence and edification of this book,they may cherish the simple feelings of loving their hometown, and absorb the wisdom and strength of building a beautiful tomorrow.

Qinhuangdao is more beautiful tomorrow, and tomorrow's Qinhuangdao is lovelier!