There are three railways passing through Rizhao, the railway between Heze—Rizhao, Jiaozhou—Xinyi and Pingshang—Lanshan. The railroad between Heze-Rizhao could link the European ports such as Rotterdam and Antwerp through Alataw Port in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, forming the New Eurasian Continental Bridge with a total length of 11,000 kilometers. The multiple tracking of Pingshang—Lanshan Railway and the electrified Xinyi-Heze-Yanzhou-Rizhao Railway are under construction. The coastal railway passing through Qingdao, Rizhao, Lianyungang and Yancheng will be constructed in 2009.

By the end of 2008, the length of highways open to traffic in the whole city has reached 63,143 kilometers, of which 139.6 are expressways, 288.5 are national highways and 352.3 are provincial highways. There are two expressways, Rizhao—Dongming Expressway and Tongjiang—Sanya Expressway, 12 national and provincial highways within the boundary. The Rizhao-Weifang Expressway and Lanshan-Linyi Expressway are in recent planning construction.

Within the radius of 150 kilometers, Qingdao International Airport, Lianyungang Airport and Linyi Airport are located encircling Rizhao and there are also expressways between two locations. The virtual airport in Rizhao of Qingdao Liuting International Airport has been set up and regional airport is under planning construction.

The ore terminal of Rizhao Port

Portside Industry

In recent years, under the correct leadership of the CPC Rizhao Municipal Committee and Municipal Government, depending on two kinds of resources and two markets, Rizhao’s portside industry has made leaping progress by exploiting the advantages of geographic location and seizing historical opportunity. According to the principle of “major project-industrial chain-industrial cluster-industrial base”, containing main industries such as steel and iron, energy source, machinery, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, food processing, cereal and oil processing, woodwork processing and petrochemical industry, the portside industrial system with regional features of Rizhao has been formed and become the pillar industry of economic development of the city.

The seaside industrial zones of southern Shandong centered by Rizhao has been listed as provincial comprehensive coordinated reform trial place; Rizhao Bonded Logistics Center (type B) has obtained national permission to be set up; Huaneng Rizhao Power Plant with installed power-generating capacity of 2×680,000 kilowatts has been built up and gone in production; Rizhao SSYMB Paper & Pulp Company is constructing new projects which can produce 1 million ton pulp and 1million-on paper; the annual production of second phase Wia Engine Company has reached 300,000; Jinma Company could produce 150,000 tons of styrene-butadiene latex in a year; the production of Sodium alginate by Rizhao Jiejing Group Corporation and the construction of Andongwei International Seafood Logistics Park has been realized. By the end of 2008, 38 portside industrial key enterprises have been put into operation, realizing revenue from main operation 78.92 billion yuan, profit and tax 6.33 billion yuan and profit 8.12 billion yuan, separately accounting for 53.1％, 60.6％ and 54.9％ of total industry above designated size in the whole city.

Rizhao Port Bulk Grain Wharf

Since the establishment of Rizhao Municipality, the CPC Rizhao Municipal Committee and Municipal Government have set up the aim of building up an international coastal city with local features and drew up a series of planning. By the year of 2008, the investment for urban development has reached 3.34 billion yuan; the current urban area is 69.95 square kilometers with the urbanization rate of 44.34% and green coverage rate of 42.24%; the urban road length is 1187 kilometers with a total area of 13.27 million square kilometers; the public urban greening land area is 1131 hectares and The per capita urban public greening land area is 19.22 square meters. The innocent treatment rate of urban garbage is 95.38%.