Lu Xibei introduced

Northwest Shandong refers to the area north of the Yellow River in Shandong Province. Including Dezhou City, Liaocheng City, Binzhou City (excluding zouping county and Boxing County) and Shanghe County, Jiyang County and Dongying City of Jinan City. It covers an area of 32,000 square kilometers and has a population of180,000. It is an important grain production base and commodity cotton base in China, and Dezhou is an economic and cultural transportation center. Northwest Shandong belongs to Jizhou in ancient times, and together with south-central Hebei and northern Henan, it forms Haihe Plain. The total area of the three districts is 6.5438+0.5 million square kilometers and the population is about 90 million. The population is mainly Han nationality, and the language is mainly Gill Mandarin. Northwest Shandong, south-central Hebei and northern Henan are closely linked. As a whole, they are adjacent to Bohai Sea in the east, Taihang Mountain in the west, Yanshan Mountain in the north and Yellow River in the south, which have natural geographical homology. Houshan (Taihang Mountain) faces the water (Bohai Sea) and is surrounded by the Yellow River. It has been a treasure trove of geomantic omen since ancient times.