According to Changqing District Investment Service Center, Jinan government has approved and authorized Shanghai Jiantong Investment Co., Ltd. as the investor of Changqing Yellow River Bridge on March 15. The examination and approval of the project has been initially completed and it is planned to acquire the approval from National Development and Reform Commission and begin construction by the end of 2011 with three-year s time limit for construction.
Starting from the dike of the city moat at the northwest corner of old Changqing and connecting with the municipal road Zhongchuan Street, the project of Jinan Changqing Yellow River Bridge extends to the west, passes Xintuncun village, passes over the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and Yellow River to the west of Sanlongzhuang village, and ends at Kongguancun village, Huguan town, Qihe county, Dezhou city. The route is 8.835km in length with 26.0m width for the roadbed and adopts the technical standard of one-level bidirectional four-lane expressway with the designed speed of 100 Km/H. With the estimated investment fund of about RMB 1.32 billion yuan, it will be built by means of BOT.
The construction of Changqing Yellow River Bridge also means that the city is speeding up the pace of Extending towards the North . Jinan government puts forward clearly in the planning outline for the 12th five-year plan that they will build the Changqing Yellow River Bridge, Jiqi Yellow River Bridge, Shiji Highway-Railway Grand Bridge over Yellow River for passengers and Luokou Yellow River Tunnel. When they are completed, it will form a crossing the Yellow River and passing through the channel system of nine bridges and one channel with six highway bridges over Yellow River in use including Jinan Yellow River Bridge, Jingtai Yellow River Bridge, Qingyin Yellow River Bridge, Jiyang Yellow River Bridge, Pingyin Yellow River Bridge and Jianbang Yellow River Bridge.
