继1995年8月3日，国家计委、国家科委和外经委联合批复，正式确定日照为新欧亚大陆桥东方桥头堡，并将日照桥头堡及日照一西安治桥经济带开发建设纳入《中国21世纪议程优先项目计划》之后，于1995年8月13～16日，由国家计委技术经济研究所、中国科学院地理研究所和日照市人民政 Following the joint approval of the State Development Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission and the Foreign Economic and Trade Commission on August 3, 1995, Rizhao was formally identified as the east bridgehead of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge and the development and construction of the economic belt of the Rizhao bridgehead and the Rizhao-Xi’an Anzhi Bridge was included in the “China Agenda 21 priority project plan ”, on August 13, 1995 to 16, by the State Planning Commission Institute of Technology and Economy, Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Rizhao Municipal People’s Government