Yantai is the only prefecture-level city across the country that has won the honorary title of National Civilized City for six consecutive years. [Photo/WeChat account: ytwlgw]

Yantai has received many Chinese and international honors, including being named among China's top 10 leisure cities, a National Civilized City, the most charming Chinese city, the best tourism city, a model city for comprehensive management of public security, and a model city for environmental protection.

Yantai ranked 175th on a list of the world's 200 most economically competitive cities in 2019.

In 2022, the city was honored as the National Demonstration City for Food Safety.

The coastal city topped Chinese cities in terms of living environment, according to a 2019 report compiled by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Asia Competitiveness Institute of the National University of Singapore.

The city has also been included in a list of the top 100 cities for foreign trade in China for the eighth year in a row by the influential China Customs magazine, the mouthpiece of China's General Administration of Customs (GAC).

Longkou, Laizhou, and Zhaoyuan in Yantai were included among China's top 100 counties, according to a list released by CCID Consulting Group on July 28, 2020.

Two Yantai firms won honors as national green manufacturing units, according to a press release by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in January 2022.