Swan Lake

    In Rongcheng Swan Lake tourism holiday resort, there is the world's largest swans habitat—Cheng Shanwei Swan Lake which has clean water, gold beach and blue sky with delightful climate.

    Every year, from November to April, thousands of swans, wild ducks and wild goose from Siberia and Nei Mongu come to spend the winter. It is well named as the Eastern Kingdom of Swans. A sand dam of 100 m wide isolates the lake and sea, forming thousands of sea and sand bathing places.

    The sea recreation company, large casino and horse race grounds have been built, which makes a modern holiday resort combining tourism, relaxing, vacation and recreation.

    According to the legend, the tears of the first emperor's wife of Qin Dynasty made the Swan Lake; the swan was the embodiment of the wife's soul. A long time ago, in order to seek immortal medicine of long life, Qin emperor recruited workmen to fill the sea and build a bridge, and ordered his wife to send meals when hearing the sound of gonging. One day, it was still early to send meals. However, due to the ramping of dung beetles, the gong sounded, the wife hurried to send meals. The emperor saw that his wife violated his order and was very angry, so he killed his wife. She felt injustice; her tears collected a river called Tears Lake. People could not forget her and wanted to bring her pure soul to the world. Therefore, countless big swans fell to the ground from sky.

    With completed facilities, 8 high-class hotels and restaurants are built in this area. There are 88 cultural recreation places, high grade bars, steam bathing center and bowling room, a water treatment company with daily water supply of 10,000 cubic meter, a transformer station of 110,000 volt, 20,000 gates of program-controlled telephones which can directly link with other places of China and foreign countries. In addition, mobile communication and wireless calls are already in service.

    It is easy to get to this area which is the center of the northeast part of Rongcheng City, 28 km from Weihai Airport, 26 km from Weihai New Port, 28 km from Weihai Railway Station. In summer, tourists come here to escape hot summers and enjoy seafood, have sea bathing and watch sea ; in winter, see swans and snow.

    This area has a lot of local special products, such as sea cucumbers, scallops, peanuts, apples.