Huge crowds of tourists and citizens visited Qingdao No 1 bathing beach yesterday, according to statistics provided by the management. The bathing beach welcomed more than 80,000 bathers yesterday. Zhanqiao beach, No 2 beach, No 3 beach, had nearly 120,000 respectively..

The captain of Qingdao No 1 bathing beach’s rescue crew told reporters that the day's continuous high-temperature had warmed the waters and the water’s highest temperature was 20 degrees centigrade yesterday. However, the current temperature is not the optimum temperature for bathing; the “golden water temperature” is expected to reach around 23 degrees centigrade by the end of this month.

By Audrey and Liu Nengzhou