Talk:Qingdao

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In the history section of the article, I think that there might be a factual inaccuracy:

The city reverted to Chinese rule in 1922, under control of the Kuomintang (the ROC). Renamed Qingdao in 1930, the city became a special administrative zone of the ROC Government. Japan re-occupied Qingdao in 1938 with its plans of territorial expansion onto China's coast. After World War II the KMT allowed Qingdao to serve as the headquarters of the Western Pacific Fleet of the US Navy. On 2nd June, 1949, the CCP-led Red Army entered Qingdao and the city and province have been under PRC control since that time.

I don't think that the city was renamed to Qingdao as early as 1930; Qingdao is Hanyu Pinyin, and I believe that there are no other romanization of Chinese place name make use of the alphabet "Q" apart from Hanyu Pinyin. Any comments? --Joshua Chiew 15:14, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Based on Image:ROC Administrative and Claims.jpg and the Chinese Wikipedia, Qingdao was a direct-controlled municipality under the ROC government. I will make changes in the article to reflect this. --Joshua Chiew 16:09, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The picture of the cathedral needs to be made smaller (ie fewer bytes, not just fewer pixels). m.e. 02:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think the cathedral picture is reasonable. If anything, the Taoist monastery picture is the one with a fair few pixels. Australian Matt (talk) 11:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Even though there aren't many references, there's a lot of information. Ethan (talk) 12:41, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look at the history of this page, especially it's sub pages. users have taken information from other sites and reworded it to avoid copyright laws. wikipedia is a JOKE. sick a duck biznich. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.234.239.119 (talk) 21:00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As I understand the Japanese version of the page, Qingdao was originally a fishing village called Jiāo'ào 膠澳.

Also, the sentence "The area in which Qingdao is located today was named Jiao'ao (胶澳) when it was administered by the Qing Dynasty on 14 June 1891."

is odd. It sounds like the Qing Dynasty controlled the city for only one day. Wakablogger2 (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In 2008, Qingdao was named China's 7th-most livable city.[2] However, as China only has seven cities, this news was not greeted with enthusiasm by the local tourist board.[citation needed]

This is very amusing, but I'll be a bore and question "as China only has seven cities". I think most statistics put the number in excess of 600. Perhaps only 7 cities qualified in the competition but as I don't read Chinese, the reference [2] is no help there - perhaps someone who does could help with the citation needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.113.141 (talk) 14:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article doesn't read at all like an encyclopedic entry should. It is rather written like a brochure for people who want to visit the city, especially the parts about transport, culture, education and sports. Garzhul (talk) 14:43, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The links on this page are useless, outdated and generally fully of rubbish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.215.219.161 (talk) 14:03, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, those sections could be rewritten following the example of the article on Seattle.--曹孟德 (talk) 00:34, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article has many sentences that barely make any sense. Many more make no sense at all. The author may have had an idea of what they wanted to say, but clearly their first language was (is) not English, and the article needs to be rewritten into something comprehensible. Example: "Mill's machine is Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad (KMW)-made (width 3048 mm) and it was acquired from Kajaani paper mill in Finland in the middle of the 1980s." This has nothing to do with the preceding paragraph (which itself isn't really a paragraph, just a collection of unrelated sentences), and this itself isn't even a sentence, but an incoherent set of phrases. It tries to make some kind of impressive point about something having a width of 3048mm, but it gives no indication of what that width pertains to, and again is disjointed and illogical. Also, the paragraph begins with wind power, and ends up with paper mills. No cohesion or connection between the two. Later paragraphs attempt to give information about economics, but are incoherent. Example: "In 2004 the local GDP is 27.51 billion RMB, increased by 28.9%" RMB should be a link giving people an idea about what "RMB" means, and 'increased by 28.9%'...what does that mean? Annual growth rate of 28.9%? Growth rate from 2004 to (now?) of 28.9%?, and if so, when is now (2011,2012,2013 ???) Was the author trying to be intentionally ambiguous? This particular sentence continues: "the total industrial output value is 60.6 billion RMB, increased by 31%." Again we see a blank untethered statistic: "increased by 31%". Over what period was this 31% increase? One half hour, 90 days or is it a forecast to the 32nd century? Only the author knows, and they did not spell it out. I could give you more, increased by 31%. As someone already wrote, it's written like a travel brochure, with a collection of facts haphazardly tossed into paragraph form. The article attempts to categorize the information, but disjointed facts should be given in bullet rather than paragraph form. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.159.230.175 (talk) 08:08, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The section about paper mills was added by User:82.128.188.210 withthis edit in February 2009. As it isn't referenced and seems to be trying to promote one paper mill over the others I think it is safe to remove it as spam/advertising.

In the later paragraph, RMB should not be a link because it has already been linked several times further up the page. Terms should only be linked once, on their first use within a page. As for the numbers, Chinese sources do like to stuff pointless statistics and it is a bit Chinglish in the grammar. More worryingly, the paragraphs in that section seem to be direct copy and pastes from the source article on the website rightsite.asia and so copyright violations. Therefore this section will also be getting cut. Rincewind42 (talk) 09:00, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are 5 county-level city (Shi) surrounding the core urban area of Qingdao Shi Shixiaqu, rather than 4. The one omitted from the table is Jiaonan Shi (胶南市), code 370284. Rif Winfield (talk) 20:26, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Create an article on the list of mayors of Qingdao from Chinese wikipedia.Rajmaan (talk) 02:49, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The former Jiaonan City in Qingdao is now incorporated into Huangdao District, which is sometimes called the West Coast New District in Qingdao. HalfDye93 (talk) 21:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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the entries in this is sprawling. I will reduce to notable entries only as per WP:CSC. LibStar (talk) 07:09, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There's a map showing the location of Qingdao on the east coast, but no map showing a pin on all of China, like you'd see on most city articles. Can someone add one? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 10:15, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Why is Chengyang District divided into two colors on the Template:Administrative divisions of Qingdao map? Geographyinitiative (talk) 02:24, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why on earth are the tones not indicated anywhere in this article? Should be Qīngdǎo.Herbgold (talk) 15:42, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is well hidden, but if you go to the second box down on the right, then transcriptions => show, you can find it, though I agree it could be somewhere a little more obvious... dtm (talk) 23:52, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Qingdao is named the China Wisdom City in 2019.

(Kevin Tian06 (talk) 03:50, 7 June 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Since 2019, Qingdao already has seven districts and three county-level cities, rather than six districts and four county-level cities.

In addition, in 2019, it was called "new first-tire city" in China.

Also, another name (Daocheng 岛城) of Qingdao was missed in the original article.

YueWu0928 (talk) 03:05, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this article not have a map like literally any other city page, like Beijing for example? Just a useless list of alternative names. Please update to the same (useful) format of other cities. 2.31.255.240 (talk) 12:57, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 108.5.202.142 (talk) 14:39, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

q 76.211.119.243 (talk) 20:46, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What I was looking for in the article was information on the use of Japanese in Qingdao, preferably in comparison to other areas of China. Pretty sure there is more Japanese there than in most parts of China, but was looking for more details. Shanen (talk) 09:15, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cool 35.142.209.119 (talk) 15:02, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]