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潍坊市
Wéifāng Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
City Seat	Weicheng District ( 36°43′N, 119°6′E)
Area	15,800 km²
Coastline	113 km
Population	8.5 million
GDP - Total - Per Capita	¥12.46 billion (2004) ¥
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	12
Township-level divisions
CPC Committee Secretary
Mayor	Zhang Xinqi (张新起)
Area code	536
Postal Code	261000 (Urban center) 261300, 261500, 262100, 262200, 262400-262700 (Other areas)
License Plate Prefix	鲁G

Weifang (Simplified Chinese: 潍坊; pinyin: Wéifāng) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Dongying to the northwest, Zibo to the west, Linyi to the southwest, Rizhao to the south, Qingdao to the east, and looks out to the Laizhou Bay to the north.

Contents 1 Administration 2 Geography 3 Economy 4 Relationship with Falun Gong Before July 22, 1999 5 Notable people 6 Trivia 7 External links

The prefecture-level city of Weifang administers 12 county-level divisions, including 4 districts, 6 county-level cities and 2 counties.

• Weicheng District (潍城区)
• Kuiwen District (奎文区)
• Fangzi District (坊子区)
• Hanting District (寒亭区)
• Qingzhou City (青州市)
• Zhucheng City (诸城市)
• Shouguang City (寿光市)
• Anqiu City (安丘市)
• Gaomi City (高密市)
• Changyi City (昌邑市)
• Changle County (昌乐县)
• Linqu County (临朐县)

Nearby cities include Jinan and Zibo to the west, Yantai to the northeast and Qingdao to the southeast.

Weifang is home to the large diesel engine company and factory Weichai. The village of Yangjiabu in Hanting district is famous for folk wood-block print (nianhua) and kite production. Weifang regards itself as the 'International Kite Capital' and holds an international kite festival every year in the spring.

Falun Gong practitioners from Weifang made a peaceful appeal at Weifang's Appeal Bureau. On the morning of July 15, 1999, the municipal government in Weifang gave an official reply with the official seal, which stated that the Weifang government would refrain from publicly attacking Falun Gong in the newspaper, allow people to practice Falun Gong in public, allow Falun Gong practitioners to pass Falun Gong-related information by themselves, and would not attack or retaliate against those practitioners who went to appeal.

• Zheng Xuan (127-200), Eastern Han Dynasty Confucian scholar
• Liu Yong (劉墉; 1719-1805), renowned Qing Dynasty bureaucrat

• Pueblo, Colorado is one of Weifang's sister cities.

• Government website of Weifang (in Simplified Chinese)
• Official website of the Weifang International Kite Festival (in Simplified Chinese)]
• Yangjiabu Nianhua (in Simplified Chinese)

Prefecture-level divisions of Shandong Sub-provincial cities: Jinan | Qingdao Prefecture-level cities: Binzhou | Dezhou | Dongying | Heze | Jining | Laiwu | Liaocheng Linyi | Rizhao | Tai'an | Weifang | Weihai | Yantai | Zaozhuang | Zibo

List of Shandong County-level divisions