Linqing City, Shandong Province is the first batch of cities approved by 1983 the State Council. Directly under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, temporarily hosted by Liaocheng City. Linqing City is a world historical and cultural heritage city, a famous historical and cultural city in Shandong Province, and is applying for a national historical and cultural city. Linqing, whose name began in the post-Zhao Dynasty, has a history of 1700 years. It is the first batch of "Millennium Ancient Counties" approved by UNESCO. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Linqing was located at the intersection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, bordering Beijing in the north, Luoyang in the west and Hangzhou in the south. It is called "prosperous and prosperous Qijia County" with a population of one million. Known as the first wharf in the world and the granary in the world. This is a famous canal city. Zhang Zizhong, a plum blossom general, Ji Xianlin, a master of Chinese studies, Cang Kejia, a famous poet, and Li Kuchan, a master of Chinese painting, are all outstanding representatives of Linqing culture.