Binzhou (Chinese: 滨州, bin-joe),[5] formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China.

The city proper sits on the northern bank of the Yellow River, while its administrative area straddles both sides of its lower course before its present delta.

Pugu joined the Shang prince Wu Geng's failed rebellion against the Zhou and was destroyed c. 1039, with its lands given to the minister Jiang Ziya as the march of Qi.

Qi became one of the most powerful of China's Warring States but was ruled from Yingqiu (modern Zibo), except for a brief hiatus under Duke Hu.

The entire length of countryside around the river from Pucheng Subdistrict to the Bay of Bohai has been created by deposition of sediment since the Qin Dynasty.

[4] The present prefecture borders (counterclockwise from due west) Dezhou, Jinan, Zibo, Dongying, the Bay of Bohai, and Hebei.

Conditions are warm and nearly rainless in spring, hot and humid in summer, crisp in autumn and cold and dry in winter.

[16] The Binzhou local government has also plowed resources into a new economic development zone on the outskirts of the new city, complete with a human-made lake.

Under this scheme, every village-level government on this day is required to hold "open debate" and conference for villagers (essentially a town hall).