Jimo District (Chinese: 即墨区[2]; pinyin: Jímò Qū), formerly Jimo City (即墨市),[3] is a District of Qingdao, Shandong.

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Jimo 即墨区 Tsimo
District
Lingshan
Location of Jimo within Qingdao
Qingdao in Shandong
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shandong
Sub-provincial city	Qingdao
Converted to district	30 October 2017
Area [citation needed]
• Total	1,780 km2 (690 sq mi)
Population  (2019)[1]
• Total	1,183,141
• Density	660/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	266200
Area code	0532
Website	www.jimo.gov.cn

Location

Jimo is located in the southwest of the Shandong Peninsula, bordered by the Yellow Sea on the east and Mount Lao on the south.

Climate

Jimo has a moderate monsoon climate. The yearly average temperature is about 12 °C (54 °F), and average annual precipitation is 708 millimetres (27.9 in).

History

Jimo was established in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, at which time it was the second largest settlement in Shandong. The Siege of Jimo in 279 BC, otherwise unremarkable, is remembered for the ruse that ended it. Tian Dan was a general of the State of Qi who had just lost 70 cities to the Yan. When Jimo, their penultimate city, was under fire, he collected more than 1,000 oxen, tied sharp daggers to their ears, tied straw to their tails, and dressed them in colourful cloth to make them look like dragons. At dead of night the Qi set the tails alight and drove the oxen towards the enemy camp. The panicking enemy soldiers were wiped out, and the Qi regained all the lost cities.

German Colony and the Siege of Tsingtao

On the 6th of March, 1898, the city of Tsimo (Jimo) became part of the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory. By the time of the First World War, the Germans had set up a small outpost in Tsimo, which on the 13th of September, 1914, was taken by advancing Japanese cavalry during the Siege of Tsingtao.[4] After its capture, Japanese cavalry and engineers alongside the 23rd Infantry Brigade would arrive at Tsimo on the 18th of September. During the siege, an airfield was built and by the 21st of September, Japanese Army Nieuport IV.Gs began operating from Tsimo in an unsuccessful attempt to bomb the German airfield and destroy the lone Rumpler Taube. [5] After the end of the war, the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory (along with Tsimo) was ceded to Japan and returned to the Chinese in 1922.[4]

Administrative divisions

As 2017, this district is divided to 8 subdistricts and 7 towns.[6]

Subdistricts

Towns

Tourism

Aoshan Bay and Tian-Heng Island are its main tourism resources.

Transport

• Line 11 (Qingdao Metro)

References

Official website

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• Jimo Government
• Aoshan Bay

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