Recently, the transportation departments of Qingdao City and Yantai City in Shandong Province and relevant counties and cities formally signed an agreement on cooperation and co-construction of the Laizhou-Qingdao Expressway. At the same time, with the strong support of the Qingdao Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the project proposal for the Qingdao section was officially approved, laying a solid foundation for accelerating various preliminary procedures.

Laizhou-Qingdao Expressway

According to reports, the Laizhou-Qingdao Expressway Project is a key project for urban renewal and urban construction transportation infrastructure in three years. It has been included in the "Shandong Province 14th Five-Year Comprehensive Transportation Development Plan", which will improve the layout of the Shandong Peninsula expressway network and accelerate It is of great significance to integrate the development of transportation in the Jiaodong Economic Circle and strengthen the rapid connection between Qingdao City and Yantai Laizhou City. On the basis of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, Qingdao Municipal Transportation Bureau, Yantai Municipal Transportation Bureau, Pingdu Municipal Government and Laizhou Municipal Government have reached an agreement on project division interface, construction standards, promotion mode, etc., and jointly signed a Laizhou-Qingdao Expressway Co-construction Framework Agreement.

The Qingdao section of the Laizhou-Qingdao Expressway is an important part of the Laiqing Expressway. The starting point of the main line is located at the Pingdu-Laizhou boundary in the north of Xishangkuang Village, Jiudian Town, Pingdu. There are three districts (cities) in Laixi and Jimo. The end point is located at the Zhongbei Passage under construction. It connects to the Shuangbu connecting line to Chunyang Road in the south, realizes the connection between Tianshan 3rd Road and Shuangyuan Road, and continues to connect to Shuangyuan in the south. Expressway and Huanwan Avenue, with a total length of 83.2 kilometers. The high-speed main line adopts two-way four-lane construction on the north section of G15 Shenhai Expressway, and adopts two-way six-lane standard construction on the section from G15 Shenhai Expressway to the terminal, with a design speed of 120 km/h.

In the next step, the Qingdao Municipal Transportation Bureau will, in accordance with the urban renewal and urban construction work deployment of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, work with relevant departments and districts (cities) along the line, to accelerate the pre-project work, and strive to start construction early and achieve quick results, in order to stabilize the economy , Stabilize investment and make transportation contributions. In terms of expressways, the Weifang-Qingdao section of the middle line of the Jinan-Qingdao Expressway that connects Qingdao and Weifang horizontally will be completed and opened to traffic at the end of 2022; the Mingdong Expressway that connects Qingdao and Weifang vertically will be completed and opened to traffic at the end of 2023; the Shenhai Expressway that connects Qingdao and Rizhao vertically The reconstruction and expansion project has started construction at the end of 2022; the Dongliang Expressway, Shenhai Expressway and Xintai Section connecting Qingdao, Rizhao and Weifang horizontally are expected to start construction in the first half of 2023. The promotion and implementation of a number of major projects has greatly promoted the transportation links between the five cities and provided strong support for the integrated development of Jiaodong. Editor/He Yuting