Laizhou Bay

Laizhou Bay forms the southern arm of the Bohai Sea, its shallow waters bordered by the northern Shandong coast. River-borne silt has built broad low shores, and for centuries people extracted brine and boiled salt along the southern side of the bay. Under the Yuan, an attempt was made to link the bay with Jiaozhou Bay by canal, allowing grain ships to cross the peninsula rather than round the exposed eastern headlands. The waterway was used intermittently in later years.