The Jinan Urban Planning Exhibition Center opened to the public on July 1st. The centre displays Jinan’s urban planning and development, including models of planned and recent developments as well as Jinan's history and culture. Tips: Jinan Urban ... Read More>>
During the Qingming Festival, the 2nd Taqing Festival (the 5th Flower Show) will be held at Jinan Botanical Garden; visitors will be able to enjoy over 30,000 magnolia trees and 40,000 flowering almond trees in bloom at the park. Read More>>
The New Year’s lantern festival at Baotu Spring in Jinan will begin on February 3 and run for approximately 20 days. The festival will feature nearly 50 different lantern displays for guests’ viewing pleasure. Photo: sd.xinhuanet.com See Also: ... Read More>>
A tour bus carrying 27 tourists was attacked by a group of tigers in the "Beasts of Prey" area of the Paomaling Wild Animal World (跑马岭野生动物世界) in Jinan on February 4th. And beasts of prey these tigers were – they surrounded the tour ... Read More>>
The 13th Jinan Dragon Boat Races will take place at Daming Lake Park from July 7-14. The races will feature men-only and men and women combo races, and each racecourse will be 800 metres in length. The Jinan Dragon Boat Races began in 1996 and have taken ... Read More>>
Jinan will start building a spring water bathing facility as early as this month, and it is expected that construction of the venue will be completed and ready for public use sometime in October. Once completed, Jinan residents will be able to use the ... Read More>>
The 2012 Qilu Tourism Ticket was recently put on sale to the public. The new ticket covers attractions in Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Sha’anxi, Shanxi, Shanghai, Liaoning, Jiangsu and Anhui. Among them, 335 attractions are free for those who have the Qilu ... Read More>>
The 8th Jinan Qingdao Beer Festival will be held at the plaza of Jinan International Conference and Exhibition Center on July 30th. At the festival, visitors can look forward to drinking delicious Qingdao Beer, all while watching the world's top circus ... Read More>>
Jinan’s Thousand Buddha Mountain is now promoting discounts. A 20% discount is available for its major spots including the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, sightseeing cableway and Shunneng slideway. The promotion lasts from Jan.6 to Feb.28. Add: 18 Jing Shi ... Read More>>
Jinan railway station began pre-sale tickets for transport during Spring Festival at 15:00 on January 9th. Ordinary train tickets can be purchased 10 days in advance while bullet train tickets can be purchased 20 days in advance. Before the coming of Spring ... Read More>>
The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (U.S) will perform at the Shandong Conference Hall in Jinan on January 2nd. The orchestra will perform songs from Oscar-winning movies (complete with wide-screen video display behind them). This is the first time that the ... Read More>>
The 14th Minghu Cultural Spring Festival Temple Fair will started in the Daming Lake scenic area on Jan 25, 2009 (Spring Festival Eve), and includes folk art and handicraft making, local food, games and entertainment, art performances, and a cultural book ... Read More>>
Jinan already has a Wal-Mart and a Carrefour, so why not Tesco too? The world's third largest retailer will open its first store in Jinan on East Erhuan Lu this October. Read More>>
November through January is traditionally a slow period for flight ticket sales. Accordingly, beginning next week, Jinan passengers can pick up many heavily discounted tickets of flights departing from Jinan to many other cities across China. For example, ... Read More>>
On April 2nd, Jinan opened four new direct bus routes to the Zhangqiu Scenic Area (章丘景区). The new Bus routes are the 游701, 游701支线,游702 and游703. These buses can be boarded at the north gate of the sports centre (体育中心北门), the Botanical Gardens ... Read More>>
Jinan Olympic Sports Center will be open to the public in late November. The entrance fee will cost no more than 20 RMB. The sports venues will be opened by Spring Festival where residents will be able to play basketball, football, ping pong, badminton, ... Read More>>
Since ticket prices for Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Rail were released lately, prices for flight tickets from Jinan to Beijing or to Shanghai have been falling down sharply. Passengers are now able to buy flight tickets from Jinan (Shandong) to Beijing with ... Read More>>
Mars en Folie – an annual event organised by the Alliance Française in Beijing, the Swiss Embassy, the Canadian Embassy, the Bureau du Quebec and the Belgian Consulate, which celebrates French music and culture – kicks off in Jinan on ... Read More>>
The 2012 Xigu Culture and Art Exhibition will be held at the Xigu Hall in Jinan on May 26. Collections of traditional Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, works of calligraphy, the scholar's four jewels (writing brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper), ... Read More>>
The annular solar eclipse on Jan. 15th will come into China from the China-Burmese border, and pass through areas in Yunnan and Sichuan before entering into Shandong. The eclipse will only be visible from a few areas in China. People in Jinan will have a ... Read More>>
Because of recent high temperatures, some K-line buses have already turned on their air conditioners contributing to greater passenger comfort. Normally, the K-line bus doesn’t turn on the air conditioning until June 1, but due to the weather, traffic ... Read More>>
Jinan’s long distance bus station which connects the East Second Ring Road to all major routes took one year to extensively rebuild. The bus station is located at the intersection of the East Second Ring Road and Gongye Lu. On August 7th, all the new ... Read More>>
The 30th Chrysanthemum Exhibition kicked off in Baotu Spring Park in Jinan on October 24th and will last for a month. Altogether 300,000 pots of over 200 varieties of chrysanthemums are shown in the park. The exhibition also includes five large scale groups ... Read More>>
The cost of most travel routes will go up in early February as the Spring Festival draws near. The cost of traveling abroad from Jinan will see an increase of around 10%. January will be a good traveling time as the popular tourist routes are 50% cheaper ... Read More>>