Yutai County is a county under the jurisdiction of Jining City, Shandong Province. It is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, at the junction of Su Ru Province and on the west bank of Weishan Lake. It is named after the existence of Diaoyutai in Lu Yingong, China.
Yutai is a "thousand-year-old county" and a characteristic cultural area of Confucian "filial piety culture" Canal culture, West Lake red culture, lake fishing culture and folk culture also have their own characteristics. Yutai is the hometown of Confucius' famous disciples and seventy-two sages Min Ziqian, Fan Zichi and Mi Zibian, and many famous stories such as "Three Sages in Five Miles" and "Lu Yishun's Mother" are circulated. The total water resources are 504 million cubic meters, the total coal reserves are 4.8 billion tons, the proven reserves are 540 million tons, and there are a lot of reserves of minerals such as sodium salt, oil, natural gas and iron.