China yingkou

Yingkou, the second largest beautiful port city in the region, is located in the northeast part of China, with the population of 2.22 million and the area of 5402 square kilometers . Yingkou has a very long history, which can be traced back to 280,000 years ago. From that time on, our ancestors began to live and work on this land.

Western Fort, build in 1882 and completed in1888, was one of the important projects for sea defense in northeast China in Qing Dynasty. It was approved as educational bases both for patriotism and revolutionary traditions by liaoning Province in 1963.

Since 1864, Yingkou began to start trading with foreign countries. It was the first trading port in northeast China and one of the five earliest trading ports in China at that time.

Yingkou Port, located in the central part of Liaodong Peninsular, is one of the major ports for foreign trade in Northeast China .Yingkou port includes : Yingkou Old Port and Bayuquan New Port. The Old Port is hearted in the city and has more than 130 years' history. The New Port , located at Yingkou Economic and Technological Development Zone, is all-weather port and the nearest access to the sea from  North Eastern China.

Dashiqiao, the magnesite captial of China, is located in the east part of Yingkou City. The reserves of talcum, silicon and gold rank in the front in China.

The rice fields in Dashiqiao and fruit orchards in Gaizhou are  very famous in the nation. Yingkou is also famous for its sea food.Everyone who come to Yingkou will taste the fresh sea food.

Yingkou is not only a good city to do business, but also a good place for the tourists.It has enough bathing places for people swimming.  The waves are very high and beautiful .Most lovers choose the romatic  beachs  to take their wedding photos.

Liao Nan, there is an old city called Xiong Yue. In the east of the city located  a lone  hill. On the top of the hill stands a grey brick tower, looked like a kind mother, looking forward to the return of her son. People now call it Wang'er Shan Hill, meaning to look forward to the return of the son.

Once upon a time, Xiong Yue City was surrounded with seashore, near the seashore, there was a poor family in the suburb of Xiong Yue city .In the family, lives a mother and a son, the mother loved her son very much, and expected him study hard, so he could have a better future. To support her son's study, she had to work hard in the fields at daytimes. Before he left, the mother said to the son:Son, take care of yourself! Don't worry about me! Just do your best, no matter you pass or fail, be home early!

For the examination, he had left home for Beijing by boat. But she hadn't heard from her son since then. She worried, and went to the shore every day, looking forward to see her son soon. year after year, the mother's hair turned grey, and still no information about her son. Every day she could see no son but ocean and the boats back and force. The poor mother cried to the ocean sadly coming back my son, God was moved by the great mother, and formed a hill at the place where the mother stood; the earth was moved by the great mother, and turned tears of the mother's into underground hot spring, they called the alone hill Wang'er Shan, which meant expecting the return of the son on top of the hill? then built a grey brick tower on the top of the hill and a Mother House at the  bottom of the hill for the younger generation to memorize it.

Now, the people in Xiong Yue are still keeping this customs to memorize their kind and lovely mother. Every Sunday in May each year, they will have a carnival to celebrate the mother's day. Some people even set steles to show their esteem for their mothers.

Yingkou Port is playing its key role in the development of Yingkou City and becoming more and more vigorous in the coming future.