Zouping () is a county-level city of

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

province.

Geography

The city is located on the northern edge of the mountainous central portion of the province. It is under the administration of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China' ...

Binzhou Binzhou (, ), formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China. The city proper sits on the northern bank of the Yellow River, while its administrative area straddles both sides of its ...

, but is only west of downtown

Zibo Zibo (, ) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, China. It borders the provincial capital Jinan to the west, Tai'an to the southwest, Linyi to the south, Weifang to the east, Dongying to the northeast, and Binzhou to the nor ...

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this City is divided to 3 subdistricts and 13 towns. ;Subdistricts * Daixi Subdistrict () * Huangshan Subdistrict () * Gaoxin Subdistrict () ;Towns

Climate

Economy

Zouping is one of the richest counties in the country. Its economic prosperity has depended on the development of the aluminum industry. The

Qixing Group Shandong Qixing Group Co., Ltd. is a private Chinese business group whose subsidiaries are engaged in the smelting of aluminum. At one point the company owned an array of other businesses including property development, power cables and ceramics and ...

and Hongqiao Group, two large players in the aluminum production industry and pillars of local industry are based in the county.

References

{{authority control County-level divisions of Shandong Binzhou Cities in Shandong