Introduction to Daqin Island

Daqin Island is located in the north of Changdao County, in the middle section of the Bohai Strait, bordering the Bohai Sea to the east and the Yellow Sea to the west. It is 54 kilometers away from Dalian City, Liaoning Province in the north, and 52.84 kilometers away from Penglai City, Shandong Province in the south. It is an island in Shandong Province. The farthest town from the mainland. The island has a total area of ??6.44 square kilometers and a coastline of 14.55 kilometers. It governs 4 administrative villages: Dongcun, Beicun, Nancun and Xiaohao Village, with a total population of 4,580. Humans lived on the island as early as 6,000-7,000 years ago. At present, 4 tombs and ancient buildings have been discovered since the Neolithic Age, including the Dongcun Nanshan site and the Beicun Santiaogou site. Among them, the Dongcun site can be compared with Xi'an. Banpo ruins are comparable. At present, there are more than a dozen surname groups on the island that migrated from Jiaodong in the middle of the Kangxi period and the early Qianlong period. The earliest immigrants came to the island nearly three hundred years ago. Before the Republic of China, Daqin Island was under the jurisdiction of Penglai County, Dengzhou Prefecture. In 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qindao Township was established, with jurisdiction over four villages (including Xiaoqindao). In 1958, during the People's Commune period, it was restructured into Qindao People's Commune, with five brigades under its jurisdiction. In 1984, he went to the community to build a township, and Xiaoqindao was separated from the township and established as the Daqindao Township People's Government, which has jurisdiction over four villages to this day.