Taitou is a town of around 58,000 people in the north of Shandong

Shandong

' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...

 province, People's Republic of China. Located in the northwest of Weifang

Weifang

Weifang is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Dongying to the northwest, Zibo to the west, Linyi to the southwest, Rizhao to the south, Qingdao to the east, and looks out to the Laizhou Bay to the north.-History:Weifang is a historical city...

 City, it is under the administration of the county-level city

County-level city

A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....

 of Shouguang

Shouguang

Shouguang is a county level city located in Weifang Prefecture-level city, Shandong Province, China. It is a relatively large city with nearly one million people residing within the municipality and its surrounding towns and villages....

 City, 23 kilometres (14.3 mi) to the southeast, and has an area of 142 square kilometres (54.8 sq mi). Within the town are 42 administrative villages.

In 1958, Taitou was created as a people's commune

People's commune

The people's commune was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the People's Republic of China during the period of 1958 to 1982-85 until they were replaced by townships. Communes, the largest collective units, were divided in turn into production brigades and production teams...

, then changed to a town in 1984. In 2000 it absorbed the town of Niutou (牛头镇).