The route to nature

"We had a very nice experience driving along the highway," he says.

The highway has made travel across Weihai more convenient and it has brought an increased number of visitors to the city, says Wang Hongchen, an official of the culture and tourism bureau of Rongcheng, a county-level city of Weihai.

Along the highway, signs are set at major points. Every 30 to 40 km along the route, there is a park with public facilities where people can enjoy outdoor leisure time.

"Over 70 percent of tourists that visited Rongcheng this summer drove to our city and over half of the total tourists to Rongcheng are from outside Shandong province," says Wang.