Which city in Shandong Province does Linqing belong to?

Linqing City belongs to Liaocheng City, Shandong Province.

Liaocheng is located in Luxi Plain, the west gate of Shandong Province, adjacent to Henan and Hebei, and at the junction of East China, Central China and North China. It is one of the first vegetable cities in China, a national historical and cultural city, a national environmental protection model city, a national garden city, a national health city, a national double-support model city, an excellent tourist city in China, a hometown of hot springs in China and one of the top ten leisure cities in China.

Liaocheng has the unique characteristics of "Jiangbei Water City" and is known as "Venice in the North of China", where the Yellow River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal meet. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, thanks to the water transportation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Liaocheng became one of the nine largest commercial capitals in the coastal areas, which was prosperous for 400 years and was known as the "Jiangbei Metropolis". Dongchang lake, which is surrounded by urban areas, is the largest urban lake in the north of China. The Eye of Watertown, a ferris wheel in Liaocheng on the south bank, is one of the top ten ferris wheels in the world, ranking seventh.

20 16 12.7, Liaocheng was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization.