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Located in the southwest of Shandong Province, China, Jining is an important center city in the southwestern part of Shandong Province, with 2 districts, 7 counties and 2 county-level cities under its jurisdiction, covering a total area of about 11,000 square kilometers, with a resident population of about 8.3 million.
Jining is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization, and is known as the "Township of Confucius and Mencius". It is the hometown of Confucius, Mencius, Yan Hui and other sages, and is home to the world cultural heritage "Three Confucius" (Confucius Temple, Confucius Mansion and Confucius Forest), as well as the heritage area of the middle section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Confucian culture, canal culture and water margin culture converge and merge here.
Jining is located at the junction of the North China Plain and the mountains of central and southern Shandong, and Weishan Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northern China. Jining has rich coal reserves and is an important energy base. Jining has a well-developed agricultural industry, and is known as the "hometown of grain and cotton".
Nowadays, Jining has formed a diversified industrial system of equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, new materials, etc. It is an important industrial city in Shandong Province and the core city of Huaihai Economic Zone, and at the same time, it maintains a deep historical and cultural heritage and an ecological and livable environment.
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