Taitou, Shandong

Taitou is a town of around 58,000 people in the north of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located in the northwest of Weifang city, it is under the administration of the county-level city of Shouguang city, 23 km to the southeast, and has an area of 142 km2. Within the town are 42 administrative villages.

In 1958, Taitou was created as a people's commune, then changed to a town in 1984. In 2000 it absorbed the town of Niutou (牛头镇).

Taitou was the site of Martin C. Yang's ethnography A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province (1945).