Do Yantai graduate students need to buy a house first if they have housing subsidies?

No need. Official website, Yantai Municipal People's Government, shows that since June 1 day, 2020, doctoral students, master students, "double-first-class" universities and the top 200 undergraduates in the world who are newly introduced to Yantai for the first time will be given a one-time housing subsidy of 200,000 yuan, 654.38+million yuan and 50,000 yuan respectively after paying 1 year tobacco social security. Yantai is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, located in the east of China and the northeast of Shandong Peninsula.