The city is under the jurisdiction of Jining City, Shandong Province!

Yanzhou, located in the southwest of Shandong Province, is directly under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province and managed by Jining City. Yanzhou has a long history. More than 4,000 years ago, Yu Xia designated the world as Kyushu, and Yanzhou was one of them. More than two thousand years ago, Confucius, Mencius and Ceng Zi all gave lectures here. The poet Li Bai once lived here.

The word "Yanzhou" appeared after the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended and wrote books, and named Kyushu after Yu. Yanzhou was one of them. Yan was written as Jiao in ancient times, and Yanzhou in Historical Records Xia Benji was written as Jiao Zhou.