Rizhao Hot Spring Shandong

Rizhao Hot Spring, in the coastal city of Rizhao (literally 'sunshine') in southeastern Shandong Province on the Yellow Sea, draws on chloride thermal waters in a city whose name reflects its exceptional sunshine hours — one of the sunniest cities in northern China — and whose modern development as a beach resort and sailing venue during the 2008 Beijing Olympics has established it as one of Shandong's fastest-growing tourism destinations. The naturally saline chloride thermal waters, characteristic of the coastal geothermal geology of southern Shandong, are used in therapeutic and recreational bathing that complements Rizhao's growing identity as a coastal wellness destination. The surrounding coastline of golden beaches, clear Yellow Sea waters, and the famous Rizhao seafood markets — where local fishermen land extraordinary catches of hairtail, shrimp, and abalone from the productive Yellow Sea fishing grounds — makes Rizhao Hot Spring a thermally active component of one of China's most rapidly evolving coastal resort cities.