The reporter learned from the recent press conference held by Shandong Provincial Government Information Office that Shandong will focus on the Yellow River, the Grand Canal, the Great Wall of Qi, the Yellow Sea and the Yimeng old revolutionary base area of five rich tourism resources, planning to build a "fast forward and slow travel" tourism transportation system with "fast external traffic, smooth internal traffic and abundant slow traffic". By 2025, highway exits will be accessible within 30 minutes to AAAA or above scenic spots, and within one hour to A or above scenic spots.
By 2025, "high-speed rail connecting cities and highway connecting counties" will be basically realized.
Gao Liping, deputy director of the Department of Transport of Shandong Province, introduced at the meeting that a fast, convenient, efficient and direct fast-forward tourism transportation system will be built by relying on backbone transportation networks including high-speed railways, expressways and airports. By 2025, the total length of Shandong's high-speed railways and expressways will reach 14 thousand kilometers. It means that connecting cities with high-speed rail and counties with two-way expressways will be basically realized, and there will be 12 civil transport airports.
Recently, the layout plan of Shandong’s transport framework of tourism transportation network has been issued in the preparation by Department of Transport of Shandong Province, together with the Department of Culture and Tourism and other units. The province will coordinate cultural tourism resources and highway construction so as to build a slow-travel tourism transportation system. In order to make tourists enjoy the wonderful view on their way to scenic spots, they have made efforts to implement the overall plan of the tourism highways connecting five major theme tourist roads, approaching all directions within one ring road, covering the Yellow River, the Grand Canal, the Great Wall of Qi, Huang-Bohai New Area, and Yimeng old revolutionary base areas.
Integrating transport by land and water
In order to build a network of transportation and tourism integration facilities with high standards, Shandong will promote the tourism function of existing highways in an orderly manner, and strive to build a number of characteristic model tourism roads with demonstration and leading role and influence in the whole country by 2025.
Shandong plans to improve the function of theme service areas such as Yimeng Landscape, Mount Tai Tour and Confucian Culture, and continue to carry out the promotions of "Traditional Handicrafts in Shandong and Yellow River Bazaar in expressway service areas. The first group of 5 flagship stores in service areas and 17 promotional demonstration sites have been constructed and put into operation, with more than 100 kinds of handicrafts on sale constantly.
Since March 22nd, 2023, 6 sets of local high-speed EMU passenger trains between Jinan and Qingdao were recently in operation. So far, the number of Qingdao-Jinan Railway running from 5:00 to 22:00 every day has increased to 69 pairs.
Shandong will design and launch product systems such as train-oriented and other special trains, high-speed rail tours to Qilu, and exclusive tourist carriages, and build special tourist train brands such as "Qilu Star" and "Pengchang Wonderland". It is planned to open up 26 special trains with different purposes such as rural revitalization and others. Meanwhile, combined with local tourism development, a new line of special trains will come into service in time.
Shandong will also improve civil aviation with their tourism functions of general airports, such as Binzhou Dagao Airport and Laiwu Xueye Airport, as well as speed up the construction of general airports such as Linyi Feixian, and support the cultivation of eight low-altitude tourism areas such as Off the coast of wonderland, Yellow River Estuary and others.
In terms of water transport, the cruise tourism system will be built, including the coordinated construction of Qingdao Cruise Terminal with Yantai Port, Weihai Port and Rizhao Port to build a cruise tourism system made up of home port, port of departure and port as a whole. Combined with the Resumption Project of navigation of Xiaoqing River and upgrading Beijing-Hangzhou Great Canal from Class Ⅲ to Class Ⅱ, we will speed up the formation of a tourism transportation network by land and water.
Source: https://pub.zgjtb.com/