Qingdao, more commonly known as Tsingdao, is a newborn city in the ancient lands of Shandong. Located in a strategic region which allows its owners direct access to the Yellow Sea and China proper, the city has had a history of foreign powers seizing it, first in 1898 by the German Empire, which the Japanese took in 1914 prior to its return to the Beiyang Government in 1922, before they seized it again during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Since then, Qingdao has been under the occupation of the Nanjing Government as a Special Municipality.

In the aftermath of the war, the city rapidly expands as part of the 'Greater Qingdao Construction Plan'. Today, Qingdao is the 3rd largest metropolis in North China beneath Beijing and Tianjin, with the largest naval base in the region. In the foreseeable future, the port city of Qingdao may turn into an economic powerhouse itself, perhaps even rivaling the power of the three pearls of Guangdong. Just maybe.