We warmly welcome you to Yantai University. In order to help you have a pleasant stay here, we have made this small handbook to provide you with information for working and living on campus.

Yantai
Yantai is an important Chinese coastal city on the Bohai Gulf. It is located on the eastern side of Shandong Peninsula facing Japan and the Republic of Korea across the sea. It has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 1 county and 7 county-level cities, covering a total area of 13,700 square kilometers with a population of 6.47 million, among which over 1.5 million live in the city proper.

Yantai is a beautiful port city as well as a famous tourist resort in northern China. The annual average temperature is about 12 degrees Centigrade and there is neither bitter winter cold nor intense summer heat. Along more than 900-kilometers of coastline are many places of historic interest and scenic beauty such as Penglai Pavilion, known as a “Fairyland on Earth”; fairy mountain on the sea—Changdao Island, and Mou Family Manor. There are many more. Each year these sites are visited by tens of thousands of tourists from both home and abroad.

Yantai has rich natural resources and many delicious local agricultural products. It is China’s famous fishery base with fresh seafood readily available in markets and restaurants. The home of a variety of fresh fruits, Yantai is famous for Yantai apples, Laiyang pears, and Changyu wine. Moreover, Yantai’s reserves and output of gold occupy first place in China.

Yantai has made the industrial development of advanced technology the focus as it implements a strategy to “Develop Yantai by Science and Education”.

In addition to Yantai University, there are several other universities like Ludong University (Yantai Teacher’s College), Shandong Institute of Business and Technology and The PLA Navy of Aeronautical Engineering.

Yantai has over 200 cultural venues and nearly 100 artistic performing groups. Yantai has been named both a “Nation Model City of Culture” and one of the “Most Attractive Cities” in China.

Yantai University
Emerging beside the Yellow Sea, Yantai University is a key university in Shandong Province. It was founded in 1984, when the State Education Committee assigned Peking University and Tsinghua University the responsibility of sending teaching, research, and administrative staff to Yantai to help Yantai University with its formative development.

Located in an eastern suburb of Yantai, Yantai University is a beautiful seaside center of higher education that encompasses a ground area of over 220 hectors with more than 650,000 square meters of completed buildings.

Yantai University is a comprehensive university with twenty colleges and departments with forty-five undergraduate specialties, eighteen graduate programs and one professional degree program.

Currently the enrollment of full-time students, including graduate students, totals more than 25,000. These students come from twenty-seven provinces and regions within China as well as several other countries including Korea and Japan.

The ultra-modern university library of 40,000 square meters contains more than 1.2 million volumes in a building of high-level digital construction. The total expense for teaching facilities has been 125 million RMB.

Yantai University’s faculty includes one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one of the First 100 Outstanding National Teachers. Fifty-one percent of the teaching faculty have doctoral or master degrees.

Foreign Affairs Office
Bai Shijun, Director Tel: 6902381
iaoyu2@ytu.edu.cn
You Jie, Deputy Director Tel:6903238
jieyou@ytu.edu.cn

Foreign Expert Section Tel: 6903323
Meng Fanli, Section Chief fanli_m@ytu.edu.cn
Zhao Lili iaoyu7@ytu.edu.cn

International Exchange Section Tel: 6902143
Zhang Xijun, Section Chief iaoyu5@ytu.edu.cn
Liang Maoguang iaoyu8@ytu.edu.cn

International Student Section Tel: 6902271
Gao Xiangyue, Section Chief iaoyu3@ytu.edu.cn
Wang Lingyun iaoyu6@ytu.edu.cn

Service Center for Foreigners
Zheng Hongde, Manager Tel: 6902047
Reception Desk Tel: 6902189
Foreign Language School
Geng Liping, Dean Tel: 6902016
Zhang Tingguo, Party Secretary Tel: 6902717
Zhou Guohui, Deputy Dean Tel: 6902006
Leng Huiling, Dean Assistant Tel: 6903471—806
Wu Xiaoyan, Teaching Affairs Secretary Tel: 6903471—806
Jin Songhe, Korean Department Head Tel: 6903471—805
Mao Fenglin, Japanese Department Head Tel: 6903471—816

Banking and Money Exchange
The Foreign Expert Section will help you open an account in the Agricultural Bank of China, which has a branch in the northwest corner of the old library - north of the lake. At the beginning of each month, your salary will be deposited directly into your account.

There are several banks downtown that offer international ATM machines. The most convenient is the Bank of China located on JieFang Road, near Sanma Road. You can go there by bus No. 10.

You may convert up to 70% of your salary into foreign currency. At the end of each semester, the Foreign Expert Section will help you exchange money in your account. To do this, we will need your passport and foreign expert certificate.

Agricultural Bank of China 6901911
Bank of China 6238888

Meals
In addition to being able to cook in your own kitchen, you can eat at one of the nine dining halls located through out the campus. In order to eat in a dining hall you must get a card from the service room located beside dining hall No. 6 by showing your passport. You can use the card in any of the dining halls.

There are also many small inexpensive restaurants located outside the North and South Gates of the University or within an easy bus ride for those who like to eat out.

Transportation
Bus
If you want to go downtown, there is a bus stop just outside the north gate and the west gate of the university. The buses run at approximately 10-minute intervals between the hours of 6 AM and 9 PM. Routes number 7, 10 and 17 go to most of the main shopping areas downtown. Bus number 23 goes to the beach/ recreation area at Kai Fa Qu.

Bus numbers 5 and 45 can be caught on DongFang Road and go near the largest supermarket, RT mart (大润发). A bus ride from the campus bus stop to the central downtown area takes about 35 minutes and costs one Yuan.

Taxi
Taxis are also a safe, reliable and relatively inexpensive alternative for traveling in and around Yantai. Within Zhifu District the usual cost is 5 Yuan while the fare to the university from downtown is 30 to 40 Yuan. Always insist that the taxi driver use the meter and pay the fare on the meter. In China, taxi drivers are not tipped, so please do not offer the driver a tip.
Taxi control center: 2111000

Flight
The airport is in Laishan District and it is a 30-minute taxi-ride from Yantai University.
Airport information: 6299138
Ticket office: 6230099/6719688

Train
The address of railway station is 135# Beima Road, Zhifu District, Yantai. It is about 20 minutes taxi-ride from Yantai University. Buses are also available.
Train information: 6243917/2965432

Ship
The address of Yantai port is Beima Road, Yantai. It is about 20 minutes taxi-ride from Yantai University. Buses are also available.
Ship information: 6741774/6242715
Ticket office: 6256746

Residence Permit
After arriving at Yantai University, your the first task will be to get a residence permit. The Foreign Expert Section will help you with this process. You should give your passport and 8 color photos (the same size as the one in your passport that you brought with you) to Meng Fanli or Zhao Lili as soon as you arrive. Then we will schedule an appointment for you and take you downtown to have a medical examination. After that, the Public Security Bureau will issue a residence permit to you. Be aware that it normally takes about 10 days to issue residence permits or visas.

Medical Care
Yantai University has its own clinic/hospital, which is available for routine medical care. It is near the north gate. If you have a serious medical problem that cannot be treated at the university hospital, you will have to go to one of the hospitals downtown. The leading hospitals are Yu Huangding Hospital and Yantai Shan Hospital.

Make sure to ask for receipts from the hospital for any medical treatment you receive. Your medical expenses can be reimbursed by handing in the receipts to Meng Fanli or Zhao Lili.

Medical Emergency 120
Yantai University Hospital 6902426
Yu Huangding Hospital 6691999
Yantai Shan Hospital 6602078

Computer and Apartment Management
A computer and printer are supplied in each apartment for the use of foreign teachers. Please make sure they are in your room and work well when you move in. Before you leave, the International Affairs Office will have the computers checked. If there are any problems about your computer or printer, please contact:
Computer Maintenance 6902140 (Miss Liu)

When you move into the apartment, you will receive a list of furniture and fixtures in your room from the Service Center for Foreigners. Please check carefully. If you have any problems concerning the furniture or fixtures, please go to the reception desk in Service Center for Foreigners for assistance. Weekly room cleaning can be scheduled by contacting the reception desk.

Holidays
Legal Holidays:
Three days off during May Day Holiday
Three days off during National Day Holiday
One day off during New Year Holiday

Usually the University will change the schedule to create a break of seven days during the May Day and National Day Holidays. To do this, some classes are conducted over one weekend (Saturday and Sunday). If your classes are included in the ones being conducted on the weekend, it will be necessary for you to work that Saturday and Sunday.

Foreign teachers also may take Thanksgiving day and Christmas day off. Please inform your students the week prior that they will not need to come to your class on those days if you are going to take them off.

Asking for Leave
If you have to leave for more than one week during the semester, please let the Foreign Expert Section know prior to your departure. If you are going to miss any classes for any reason, the University department for those classes needs to be contacted. The phone numbers and staff contacts will be provided to you in a meeting prior to the beginning of the semester.

Emergency Phone Numbers
Police Emergency Only 110
Fire assistance 119
Phone numbers query 114
Medical Emergency 120
Public Security Office of Yantai University 2510

Teaching Affairs
1. The University has determined which textbooks will be used in each class/subject. You will be given the textbooks for each of your classes at a meeting before the semester begins. If you want to use supplementary material, please get permission from the department responsible for that class or classes prior to using the additional material.

2. Students should be assigned homework. Homework must be corrected carefully and the students should receive feedback on their homework. Teachers are expected to be available to students after normal class times in the form of open office hours and individual appointments. All examination papers and any other work used to determine the students’ grades as well as school reports must be handed in as required.

3. Please be on time for classes and do not leave until the class period is over. Smoking is not allowed and mobile phones should not be used in your class. Ask the students to turn off all mobile phones prior to the beginning of class. Teacher should remain in the classroom unless leaving the classroom is related to your instruction.

4. Foreign teachers should not conduct religious activities during the class or in the classroom.

5. Each teacher is expected to turn in a curriculum schedule for the semester for each subject/class by the end of the second week of instruction. Do not change your curriculum schedule without permission. If you really need to change your schedule, please let people from the department you are working for know prior to making the change.

6. Teachers should dress neatly and decently in and out of the classroom. They must always conduct themselves in a dignified and refined manner. Both dress and conduct should be appropriate for someone teaching at the university level.

We hope you feel at home and everything goes well.