The north line of the Jining-Qingdao Expressway will be closed for construction for 36 hours from 16:00 on December 19 to 04:00 on December 21, affecting 15 toll stations in both directions, including Zibo, Qingzhou, Changle, Weifang, Gaomi, Jiaozhou, Jimo and Qingdao; the Zhoucun, Zouping and Zhangqiu toll stations will be closed in the Qingdao direction.
The reporter learned from China Railway Jinan Group Co., Ltd. that, to meet the travel needs of passengers in cities along the Jinan-Qingdao and Jinan-Yantai routes, the railway department will launch a passenger train capacity expansion plan. It will implement coupled operation for a total of 8 EMU trains: D6004 Qingdao-Jinan, D6053 Jinan-Yantai, D6056/7 Yantai-Qufu East and D6077 Jinan West-Rongcheng on December 19; and D6082/3 Zaozhuang-Rongcheng, D6076 Rongcheng-Jinan, D6011 Jinan-Qingdao and D6072 Rongcheng-Jinan West on December 20, making every effort to guarantee passenger travel.