The 40-day Spring Festival travel rush ended on March 13, with Shandong managing 538 million cross-regional passenger trips, a 9.5 percent increase from the previous year. Commercial transport accounted for over 53.8 million trips, while non-commercial travel via highways reached 484 million, a 10.22 percent increase from the same period last year. The province's highway traffic volume totaled 97.84 million vehicles, increasing 12.86 percent year-on-year.

During this year's travel rush, China Railway Jinan Group transported nearly 20.6 million passengers, a 5.2 percent rise, with March 8 marking the peak at 778,900 trips. The railway operator ran 586.5 pairs of scheduled trains – 30.5 pairs more than last year – and expanded its "quiet carriage" service to 215 trains. The new "Friendly Shandong, Qilu No 1" cultural heritage train connecting Shandong's Tai'an and Hebei's Handan averaged 1,520 passengers daily with an 80 percent occupancy rate.

Shandong Provincial Airport Management Group handled over 4 million passengers across around 30,000 flights, with airports in Jinan and Dongying reaching historic highs. Domestic routes to popular destinations like Guangzhou and Shenyang experienced double-digit growth.

International travel surged, with passenger volume to Seoul increasing 36 percent and to Kuala Lumpur skyrocketing 500 percent. Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport alone served 2.43 million passengers, peaking at over 70,000 daily trips, which is a new record for Spring Festival travel rush.