Haiyang City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, is administered by Yantai City. Located in the southeast of Shandong Peninsula, Yantai City, the southern part of the territory, east of Lushan, Muping, west of Laiyang, north of Qixia, south of the Yellow Sea, south-west across the Dingzhi Bay and Jimo. The total land area is 1,909 square kilometers and the sea area is 1,829 square kilometers. As of October 2022, Haiyang City has 4 streets and 10 towns under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, Haiyang City had a resident population of 574,800.
Haiyang is the hometown of "Mine Warfare", the Jiaodong Anti-Japanese Military Region was established in Zhu Wu Town, Haiyang City, with the headquarters in Battlefield Park Village, Guo Town, which is still well preserved, and has been selected as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art"; Xu Shiyou Memorial Museum in Jiaodong has been named the "Party History Education Base of Shandong Province". "Shandong Province Party History Education Base"; Mine War Memorial Hall was announced as "the first batch of national anti-war memorial facilities and sites" and "National Patriotism Education Demonstration Base"; Haiyang Big Rice-plant Song The Haiyang rice-planting song brand was honored as the top ten highlights of Shandong Province's non-legacy protection in 2019. There are landscape attractions such as Zhaohu Mountain National Forest Park and Yunding Bamboo Forest, the largest bamboo forest in northern China.
In 2022, Haiyang city will realize a regional GDP of 49.77 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry will be 9.90 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry will be 17.73 billion yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry will be 22.14 billion yuan.