Weihai City is close to Tsingtao with 3 hour bus trip. It is a small city with 2.48 million people. Weihai boasts beautiful sceneries of mountains and the sea, has distinctive four seasons. Therefore it is an ideal tourism and summer resort. In 1996, Weihai was ranked by the United Nations as the top 100 model cities that have made substantial achievements in improving people's living environment..