Qianfoshan Mountain is located about 2.5 kilometers southeast of the city at 285 meters above sea level. It is one of the three most famous places in Ji'nan and occupies an area of 166 hectares.   

The hill was called Miji Hill and Lishan Hill in ancient times. When the Buddha statues were chiseled on the hill in the Sui Dynasty, it was renamed the Thousand-Buddha Hill. During the early years of the Sui Dynasty (581-618 AD), Buddhism became popular with people in the area and Buddhist disciples built many temples and carved numerous Buddhist statues on the rocks of the mountain, hence the name. During the reign of Zhengguan in Tang dynasty, the hill was renovated and changed into "the Buddhist temple made the country prosperous". Then met with the flames of war, the hill was destroyed, and rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

With various kinds of plants like grass, ageless pines and cypress overgrown in, the mountain, at a distance, looks like a giant wearing a huge green carpet dotted with pavilions, towers and terraces. The most famous is Xingguo Temple which was built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The Thousand-Buddha Cliff on the south side of the mountain presents 130 statues of Buddha carved in the Sui Dynasty. The cliff houses five caves which, from west to east, are respectively called Longquan Cave, Jile Cave, Qianlou Cave and Luzhu Cave. The largest ones are over 3 meters high and the smallest ones are only 20 centimeters.

 
The Thousand Buddha Mountain stretches from east to west with its landscape spreading like a screen. On the north side of the mountain are three winding and zigzagging ascending paths, flanked by massive pines and cypresses with thick shady leaves that obscure the sun. On the eastern side of the mountain stands the Shandong Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery for Revolution of 1911. Other interesting places on the mountain include the Tang-Dynasty Pagoda Tree Pavilion, Shandong Nine Clouds, and Cloud Passing Zen Temple, etc. In recent years, there are tremendous developments in The Thousand-Buddha Mountain Park, and many objects were built, such as garden peach blossom, cableway, the strange slide ways, Yingfang garden, the eighteen disciples of Buddha, sleeping Buddha, stone garden, golf courses, waterfall, theatre, and the picture of stone of the Shun garden.