Laishan District, belonging to Yantai City, Shandong Province, is located in the main city of Yantai City, east and south of Yantai City, Muping District, southwest of Yantai City, Fushan District, Yantai City, adjacent to the northwest of Yantai City, Zhifu District, northeast of the Yellow Sea. Between the east longitude 121 ° 19 ′ 25 ″ - 121 ° 33 ′ 29 ″, latitude 37 ° 17 ′ 50 ″ - 37 ° 31 ′ 40 ″ between the jurisdiction of the east and west of the maximum distance of 15.9 kilometers, the maximum distance between the north and south of 31 kilometers, a total area of 285.4 square kilometers, of which land 273.6 square kilometers, accounting for 95.9%; and 11.8 square kilometers of water, accounting for 4.1%. As of October 2022, Laishan District has six streets under its jurisdiction. According to the seventh population census, as of November 1, 2020, there were 389,494 permanent residents in Laishan District.
Layshan District has a beautiful ecological environment, a temperate maritime climate with obvious characteristics, and an organic integration of mountains, sea, islands, lakes, rivers, springs and forests, which makes it a place for leisure tourism and vacation and summer resort. There are many colleges and institutes such as Shandong Institute of Commerce and Industry, Yantai University, Binzhou Medical College, and Coastal Zone Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Shandong Province's first and the country's second national intellectual property protection center settled in Laishan, Yantai nuclear power R & D center has become the country's first nuclear power industry, the whole industry chain innovation platform, Jereh industrial design center recognized as the only domestic industrial design center in the field of oil and gas field equipment. It has been awarded the honorary titles of National Advanced District for Scientific and Technological Progress Assessment, National Basic Balanced District for Compulsory Education Development, National Food Service Food Safety Demonstration District, and National Marine Park.
In 2022, Laishan District will realize a gross domestic product (GDP) of 46.43 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry will be 390 million yuan, the added value of the secondary industry will be 16.27 billion yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry will be 29.77 billion yuan. The structure of the three industries is 0.9:35.0:64.1.