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Qing Ming (清明节) is a day to pay respects to ancestors and mark the onset of Spring.
For shopping, people watching, and one of the best night markets in Qingdao, visit the Taidong San Lu Pedestrian Street.
Check out some information on Qingdao temples both in town and around Laoshan.
Yunxiao Lu is a street in downtown Qingdao known for its many restaurants.
Qingdao has Sister City guanxi with cities around the world.
The Ancient Murrelet spotted in Qingdao for the first time since 1992 according to the Qingdao Evening Newspaper.
The Qingdao Liuting International Airport was Qingdao’s main civil airport until August of 2021, when all air traffic to/from Qingdao was redirected to its replacement, Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport.
Chinese Lantern Festival (Yuan Xiao Jie/元宵节) brings light and sweet tang yuan on February 17.
Qingdao’s satellite cities of Jimo, Laixi, and Pingdu are shaping up to be comfy suburbs of an increasingly urban metropolis.
Find out where the Dude might be hanging out in Qingdao.
One of the most striking features of new Qingdao is the May Winds sculpture that signifies the May 4th movement.
Shandong Lu is one of the main roads of the new CBD in Qingdao.
Tian Hou Gong (天后宫) is a temple in Qingdao originally built in 1467.
Xiao Yu Shan (Little Fish Hill/小鱼山) is a traditional style Chinese pagoda that has become one of Qingdao’s modern icons.
Daxue Lu is an historic road in Qingdao that runs north from coastal Taiping Lu past the old campus of Ocean University.
Singles Day (Guang Gun Jie/光棍节) in China is an informal holiday that takes its inspiration from the four 1’s in the date 11.11.
Qingdao’s largest performing arts center is near Shilaoren (Old Stone Man/石老人) in Laoshan district.
Yesterday on the front page of Qingdao’s Morning Newspaper (Qingdao Zaobao/青岛早报) was an article about the illegal trapping of birds.
Laoshan Cola (崂山可乐) is Qingdao’s homegrown alternative to Coke.
Happy shopping is the motto of many supermarkets in Qingdao. To orientate those new in Qingdao, here’s a list of the major outlets in the city.
Impressions of a recent trip to Qingdao on Burabura.me: bags of beer, beaches, and clouds.
114, 532, 12580, 1903… What’s it all mean? Qingdao by the numbers.
Qingdao Double Star (Shuang Xing/双星), sponsor of the local CBA team, makes old school Chinese style sneakers in factories around Qingdao.
Epiphone guitars have been made in Qingdao by Gibson since 2002. Find out more here.
The 2010 Olympic Sailing Cities Mayors International Sailing Summit Forum issued the Qingdao Declaration on International Sailing Sports.
The Taidong brewmasters are cooking up something that gives Tsingtao Brewery Co. more profit in addition to passion, dreams, and success.
Chicago TV personality Nancy Loo recently visited Qingdao and learned to love this “geographical gem”.
Check out a new can design for Tsingtao Beer featuring Qingdao’s famous Zhan Qiao Pier.
Qingdao now has a website especially devoted to the great noodles of northwest China, Lanzhou la mian, called Qingdaolamian.com.
An excerpt from the blog of a former Liaocheng (Shandong) resident gives props to life in China.
Solar panels are one of the great bright hopes of the future for clean, sustainable energy, and they’re made in Qingdao.
Get the 114 on the Huangdao area, including Kaifaqu and Xuejiadao in Qingdao’s Development Zone.
Qingdao is becoming one of the most popular bouldering and rock climbing areas of China.
Check out this post from Battered Leather Journal about experiencing the Qingdao International Beer Festival.
The building on the northeast corner of the Anhui Lu – Guangxi Lu intersection is the Qingdao Post and Telecommunications Museum.
QQ, China’s most popular instant messaging system, has been called “the MSN killer that’s made in China”.
Ocean Heaven starring Jet Li was filmed in Qingdao in 2009. It is now being shown at Broadway Cinemas and other theaters around China.
The Camel Xiangzi Museum on Huangxian Lu in Qingdao commemorates the former residence of the famous author Lao She (老舍).
Tsingtao Beer is making a splash in Shanghai at the Expo 2010 with ads that use English as the prominently featured language.
From the travel blog called Battered Leather Journal, here’s an entry entitled Day 21: Welcome to Qingdao.
The Qingdao Municipal Museum is an often overlooked yet valuable cultural resource, and well worth a visit.
Now that warmer weather is here, it’s a good time to get out and about. Here’s a rundown of some of the best parks in Qingdao.
Badahu (Eight Big Lakes/八大湖) is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Qingdao.
Residents and visitors alike all realize the great potential of Qingdao as one of the best holiday spots in Asia.
The Qingdao Municipal Archives recently opened an expansive exhibition of hundreds of historical postcards gathered from around the world.
Chinese Style Divorce (Zhong Guo Shi Li Hun/中国式离婚) is a popular TV series from 2004 that was shot in Qingdao.
Check out these photos of Qingdao taken by Leroy W. Demery Jr. when he was traveling around China as a student in 1983.
The main street through Qingdao’s modern downtown area is called Xianggang Lu (香港路/Hong Kong Road) after the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
Qingdao Lu is a short but significant road in Qingdao, running from the old municipal government building to the coast near Zhan Qiao Pier.