Jiaozhou City, county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, administered by Qingdao City, is located in the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula, the northwestern shore of Jiaozhou Bay, the Yellow Sea, between latitude 36 ° 00 ′ - 36 ° 30 ′, longitude 119 ° 37 ′ - 120 ° 12 ′ between the east neighboring Chengyang District, Jimo District, the west of Gaomi City, Zhucheng City, the south of Huangdao District, and the north of Pingdu City, a total area of 1,324 square kilometers, with a total area of 1324 square meters. Pingdu City to the north, with a total area of 1,324 square kilometers. As of October 2022, Jiaozhou City has 8 streets and 4 towns under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, the resident population of Jiaozhou City was 1,033,600 people.
Jiaozhou is located in the southeast of Jiaozhou Bay, named after the glue; it has a history of more than 5,000 years, with Banqiao Town set up in the Tang Dynasty, and the port flourishing in the Northern Song Dynasty, with the continuous prosperity of the maritime trade, and it is the foreign commercial port north of the Yangtze River, one of the five major commercial ports of the country, and an important node of the Maritime Silk Road, and known as the "Golden Jiaozhou". Jiaozhou is known as "Golden Jiaozhou"; it is the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art, the hometown of Chinese rice-planting songs, and the hometown of Chinese paper-cutting. Jiaozhou is an important transportation throat connecting the Shandong Peninsula with domestic and overseas, with national economic and technological development zones, Shandong Province's 4F-class international airport, national airspace economic demonstration zone, airport comprehensive bonded zone, regularization of 24 domestic and international liner, access to dozens of countries along the SCO and "One Belt, One Road".
In 2022, Jiaozhou city will realize a GDP of 154.109 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry will be 6.598 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry will be 74.016 billion yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry will be 73.495 billion yuan. The structure of the three industries is 4.3:48.0:47.7, and the per capita GDP reaches 149,948 yuan.
In 2023, the GDP of Jiaozhou City will be 163.75 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 6.8%.