Qingdao is located in the southeast coast of Shandong Peninsula, east of Jiaodong Peninsula, and at the forefront of China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area. Close to the Yellow Sea, facing the Korean Peninsula across the sea, adjacent to Yantai in the northeast, Weifang in the west and Rizhao in the southwest; With a total area of 1 1282 square kilometers, it governs 7 districts and 3 county-level cities. In 20 17, the total resident population was 9,290,500, and the regional GDP was11037.28 million yuan.
Qingdao, formerly known as Jiaoao, is a national historical and cultural city and the birthplace of Taoism in China. 6000 years ago, human beings lived and multiplied in China. It is named for its numerous trees and evergreen seasons. 189 1 year, the Qing government stationed troops; 1897, Germany leased to build ports and railways; 19 1438+0 1 year, Japan occupied Qingdao instead of Germany; 1June 1949, Qingdao was liberated.
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Qingdao, born of the sea, has been the starting point and important hub of the northern line of the Maritime Silk Road since ancient times. Nowadays, in the planning and construction of the "Belt and Road", Qingdao is positioned as the main node of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Corridor and a strategic fulcrum city for maritime cooperation.
As one of the earliest cities that started industrialization in modern China, Qingdao became an important light industry base in China in 1950s and 1970s, forming a complete and large-scale industrial system of textiles, machinery, chemicals, food and household appliances, and giving birth to a number of well-known enterprises and brands.
At present, Qingdao has been established as an important core city in the construction planning of Shandong new and old kinetic energy conversion comprehensive experimental zone. Taking the Shanghai Summit as an opportunity, Qingdao has accelerated its exploration and practice in speeding up urban transformation, promoting the transformation of old and new kinetic energy, expanding opening up and shaping urban brands. The "Three-year Action of Comprehensively Improving Urban Environmental Quality and Building Beautiful Qingdao" has achieved initial results.
The construction of urban ecological civilization is not only a livelihood project, but also related to the survival of urban historical and cultural space, traditional architectural forms and their lifestyles, citizenship, language and customs. At the same time, it is closely related to the industrial base and development concept of the city, and it needs reasonable design and planning. Culture, art and creative design have become the main factors to improve the vitality and competitiveness of cities.
In the world, it has become a development trend for art and design to participate in urban space transformation and industrial transformation. 2 1 century, under the background of great development and prosperity of cultural industry, the China pattern of artistic design, represented by Beijing's "798 Art District", gradually emerged and quickly swept across the country.
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