Haiyang

County-level city in Shandong, People's Republic of ChinaHaiyang 海阳市County-level cityHaiyang sand art gardenLocation in YantaiHaiyangLocation in ShandongCountryPeople's Republic of ChinaProvinceShandongPrefecture-level cityYantaiArea • Total1,886 km2 (728 sq mi)Population (2017) • Total658,000 • Density349/km2 (904/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)Postal code265100Websitewww.haiyang.gov.cn (in Chinese) Haiyang (simplified Chinese: 海阳; traditional Chinese: 海陽; pinyin: Hǎiyáng) is a coastal city in the Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Its name translates directly from "yang" (阳) side of the "ocean" (海) in Mandarin. It is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yantai and was the host city for the 2012 Asian Beach Games. It is also the site of the new Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant and in 2021, became China's first city to fully utilize nuclear energy for its district heating system. Haiyang is the hometown of writer Sun Junqing (孙俊卿), whose 1962 work about the hope for a better year of farming in 1963 after the Great Chinese Famine is part of