Taian Overview

Taian lie in middle part of Shandong, locate east longitude 116 ° 20 '--117 ° 59 ' , north latitude is 35 ° 38' --36 ° 28' 30". Make Mount Tai and Jinan as the boundary in the north, link with Jining in the south, the west opposites Liaocheng area and separated by the Yellow River, the east and overgrown with Laiwu city, Zibo city, Linxi city to adjoin. 176.6 kilometers long from east to west, the north and south is 93.5 kilometers wide, area is 7762 sq. km., accounts for 6.2 percent of the whole province. It have jurisdiction over Mount Tai district, Daiyue district, Xintai city, Feicheng city, Ningyang county, Dongping county 6 county,city and district. Tai'an is China East China important tourist city opening to the outside world.
Tai'an city belongs to continental half a moist monsoon climate district in the temperate zone, makes a clear distinction between the four seasons, the cold heat is suitable, only move ahead simultaneously warmly, the rain is hot and season. It is dry and windy in spring, it is burning hot and rainy in summer, the warm and fine air is comfortable in autumn, it is cold in winter to lack the snow. A part located in mountain areas in middle Shandong of Tai'an, the terrain slopes from the Northeast to southwest, there are many kinds of ground form types within the border, have both at the same time in mountain region, hills, plai, depression lake. The mineral resources in Tai'an are abundant, it is large in reserves, of high grade, is distributed wider characteristic to have, collocate, pay relatively reasonable in region or variety. Underground metal that is already verified now, nonmetal and have valuable metal mineral deposit yes coal, iron, copper, cobalt, gold, aluminium soil, quartz, 50 pieces of assortment such as snake's mosquito stone, gypsum, rock salt, potassium, natural sulphur, potassium feldspar, asbestos, cement limestone, granite, marble, potter's clay, fire clay, accounts for about 50 of the solid mineral products reserves in the whole province. Among them sulphur is exclusive for the whole province. Tai'an biological various in style materials, have higher plant now 239 family 1212, animal 4 key link 385, 35 families and 136 kinds of planktonic organism . In addition there are a small amount of rare, endangered animals, some ancient trees, famous wood, flowers,etc..