Air
There are eight civil airports within Shandong province, located in Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai, Weifang, Linqi, Dongying and Jining. Among them, Yaoqiang Airport of Jinan, Liuting Airport of Qingdao and Laishan Airport of Yantai are international airports.
Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport is located 40 kilometers northeast of downtown Jinan, linking with Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai and Yantai. The airport buses running between Shandong Aviation Mansion in Jinan and Yaoqiang Airport are available from 6:00 am to 5:00 pm everyday, with an interval of one hour between buses. The journey is about one hour and costs 15 yuan per person.
Qingdao Liuting International Airport is situated 32 kilometers away from downtown Qingdao. Its airlines connect Qingdao with over 30 major cities of Chinese mainland as well as Hong Kong, Macau, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, Seoul and Singapore.
Yantai Laishan International Airport is located in Laishan county, 15 kilometers south of Yantai City. There are flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin, Jinan, Shenyang and Wuhan everyday. Flights traveling to Hong Kong are available every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.
Highway
Shandong possesses a high-grade transportation system, especially its advanced and convenient network of highways which extend in all directions. Shandong ranks number one for highway transportation in China. It is famous throughout China for the length and quality of its highways. So far, all 17 cities and prefectures of Shandong except Binzhou are connected by highways, and the total length of highways had reached 2,006 km. The Beijing-Shanghai highway passes through Dezhou, Jinan, Tai'an, and Linyi. The Jinan-Qingdao Expressway traverses the Shandong Peninsula, joining Jinan, Zibo, Weifang and Qingdao, and forms the central ‘T’ of Shanndong’s highway network along with the Beijing-Shanghai highway.
Boat
Every day, there are passenger ships bound for Dalian from Yantai, Weihai, and Penglai on the Shandong Peninsula, and there are four high speed passenger ships from Yantai to Dalian. Qingdao, Weihai, and Yantai also have regular ships to Korea and Japan.
