A Fuxing train runs on the Yantai section of the Qingdao-Rongcheng Intercity Railway. [Photo/Yantai Daily]

The coastal city of Yantai is making efforts to improve its transportation network. By the end of 2025, the length of its high speed railway is expected to hit 477 kilometers and the mileage of the general speed railway will reach 490 kilometers.

In the next five years, the city will accelerate the construction of the Weifang-Yantai High Speed Railway and the Laixi-Rongcheng High Speed Railway to help Yantai integrate into the Shandong provincial high-speed railway network and connect Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, Yangtze River Delta and other regions.

Furthermore, Yantai will promote the construction of short distance passenger railways between Yantai and Qingdao. It will speed up the construction progress of the Qingdao-Pingdu-Laizhou Intercity Railway and Qingdao-Haiyang Intercity Railway to accelerate the integrated development of transportation in the Jiaodong Economic Circle.

More efforts will be made to improve the network pattern of the freight railway in the city and construct three special railway lines to Yulong Island in Longkou, Hengbang Chemical Industrial Park in Mouping, and Zhifu Bay Port Area.