The People's Republic of China (中华, Zhōnghuá in Chinese) has a lengthy coastline, many large harbors, and a large number of lighthouses. During the colonial period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Western powers occupied a number of locations in China and built lighthouses, many of which survive. In more recent years the People's Republic has developed modern ports throughout the country and built many lighthouses to serve them. The country is divided into 23 provinces and 11 other province-level regions of various special types. Shāndōng (formerly spelled Shantung) is a province of northern China lying directly across the Yellow Sea (Huáng Hǎi) from South Korea. The province includes the Shāndōng Peninsula (Shāndōng Bandǎo), which separates the Yellow Sea from the Bohai Sea (Bó Hǎi). As a result the province has long coastlines facing north on the Bohai Sea and southeast on the Yellow Sea. Shāndōng is divided into sixteen prefectural-level cities. This page includes lighthouses of the province's southernmost coast, facing the Yellow Sea, in the prefectural-level city of Rìzhào. Rìzhào is a traditional fishing port, now a major commercial seaport and a Yellow Sea beach resort. The city has a population of about 2.8 million. Also included are lights of the southernmost part of the prefectural-level city of Qīngdǎo, located just over the northern border of Rìzhào. There are many languages and dialects spoken in China, but Standard Chinese, often called Mandarin, is official. The pīnyīn system for transliterating Standard Chinese into Latin characters is now the international standard but some locations continue to be known also under the spellings of older transliteration systems. The Chinese word for a lighthouse is dēngtǎ (灯塔). In Standard Chinese jiāo (formerly chiao) is a reef or rock, jiǎo is a cape or headland, dǎo (tao) is an island; yǔ (tsu) or tuózi ("lump") is a small island, hǎi is a sea, wān is a bay, hǎixiá is a strait, hé or jiāng is a river, hékǒu ("river mouth") is an estuary, and gǎng (kang) is a harbor. Lighthouses in China are maintained by the PRC Maritime Safety Administration. The administration is organized in four regional administrations; Shāndōng lighthouses fall under the Tiānjīn MSA. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. CN numbers are Chinese light list numbers. Admiralty numbers are from volume P of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112.
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Qīngdǎo Prefecture Lighthouses
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Rènjiātái Light, Rìzhào, July 2018 Google Maps photo by Huai Lv |
Rìzhào Prefecture Lighthouses
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Shíjiù Light, Rìzhào, August 2017 ex-Tencent News photo by Xiaobian |
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Shíjiù West Breakwater Light, Rìzhào, June 2019 Google Maps photo by Kamal Char |
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Adjoining pages: North: Qīngdǎo | South: Liányúngǎng
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Posted March 31, 2008. Checked and revised September 7, 2023. Lighthouses: 29. Site copyright 2023 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.