Linghai City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province, is managed by Jinzhou City. Linghai City is located in the southwest of Liaoning Province and along the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea. Its geographical coordinates are between 40 ° 48 '- 41 ° 26' N and 120 ° 42 '- 121 ° 45' E, and it is surrounded by Jinzhou City, the central city of western Liaoning. Linghai is an open coastal city in Liaoning Province, known as "a pearl on the Liaoxi Corridor". On November 16, 1993, it was approved by the State Council to withdraw from the county to build a city.

Linghai has jurisdiction over one provincial development zone, 17 townships, 4 streets, 257 administrative villages and 20 community neighborhood committees. The total land area is 2555 square kilometers, the cultivated land area is 1.73 million mu, and the grassland area is 50000 hectares. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Linghai City is 412513.

In 2020, Linghai's GDP will be 14.7 billion yuan, an increase of 2%; The general public budget revenue was 1.2 billion yuan, up 3.1%; Fixed asset investment was 5.83 billion yuan, up 4.2%; The added value of industries above designated size was 890 million yuan, up 5.7%; The total retail sales of consumer goods reached 3.18 billion yuan, up 6.1%; The per capita disposable income of rural residents was 18692 yuan, up 8.1%.