Marriage registries are made available in young people’s favorite tourist attractions, internet-famous spots in Qingdao. Nine itinerant featured marriage registries in many sites ranging from Villa Anna, the Cruise Home Port to Tsingtao Haitian View & Art appeal to a continuous stream of new couples. Since the start of this year, 9,816 new couples have made marriage registration in itinerant registries in Qingdao, a 176.1% year-on-year surge.

On the 81st floor of Tsingtao Haitian View & Art, the first high-altitude romantic marriage registry in Shandong Province, new couples stand on the peak with an altitude of 369 meters to overlook red tiles, green trees, blue seas and azure skies, and take love oaths amid spectacular scenery.

The baroque Villa Anna built in 1901, where Qingdao’s first itinerant marriage registry is located, is viewed by young people as the most beautiful marriage registry in China. More than 2,000 couples have tied the knot there.

Qingdao, a city boasting seas and mountains as well as exceptional natural endowments, is imbued with romance in its daily life. Every year, more than 200,000 couples flood into the city to take wedding photos. Aside from traditional coastal sites such as the Zhanqiao Pier, Eight Great Passes and Olympic Sailing Center, the red wall on Daxue Road, Xiaomaidao Park and Yuekong Wedding Hall on the West Coast are well sought-after wedding photography sites among new couples.

From building love-featured landmarks to launching the “Love Stories along the Bay” scenic area, and from emerging as a national travel photography site to developing the destination wedding industry cluster, Qingdao is working hard to establish the landscape of romance economy, so as to appeal to an increasing number of new couples. (Jia Zhen)

The third bathing beach becomes a romantic shooting location for new couples. By Zhao Jianpeng