Jinan-Qingdao Expressway is 318 kilometers long, starting from Daqiao Road in the northeastern suburb of Jinan City in the west, and Xiyuanzhuang in the northern suburb of Qingdao City in the east. It runs through 17 cities and counties (districts) of Shandong Peninsula and connects Jinan, Zibo, Weifang, Qingdao and other important industrial cities. It runs through 5 national roads and 15 provincial roads. The project began to survey and design in April 1986, started construction in July 1990 and opened to traffic in early 1994. The project has been approved by the state to use the Bank's third batch of road loans of $110 million.
Jinan-Qingdao Expressway (now a East-West horizontal line planned by the National Expressway network, No. G20 Qingyin Expressway, the eastern section of Qingdao-Yinchuan Expressway) is one of the 15 most influential and important project candidates for China's Expressway in the past 15 years.
Jinan-Qingdao Expressway is 318 kilometers long. It starts from Daqiao Road in Jinan City in the West and goes east to Xiyuan Zhuang in the northern suburb of Qingdao City. It runs through 17 cities and counties in Shandong Peninsula and connects Jinan, Zibo, Weifang, Qingdao and other important industrial cities. It runs through 5 national roads and 15 provincial roads. The main line project was completed and opened to traffic at the end of 1993.