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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 02 2019, @12:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the connections-might-be-a-hike dept.

Giant Beijing Airport set to Open on eve of Communist China's 70th Birthday:

Beijing is set to open an eye-catching multi-billion dollar airport resembling a massive shining starfish, to accommodate soaring air traffic in China and celebrate the Communist government's 70th anniversary in power.

Work on the Beijing Daxing International Airport officially ended on schedule Sunday, ready for a September 30 inauguration—on the eve of the anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic on October 1, 1949 by Mao Zedong.

Celebrations of that event will see President Xi Jinping reviewing a huge military parade through the centre of Beijing, with the opening of the futuristic hub a fitting embodiment of the "Chinese dream" he has offered his fellow citizens.

Located 46 kilometres south of Tiananmen square, the new airport will operate at full capacity in 2025, with four runways and the potential to receive 72 million passengers per year.

[...] By 2040 the hub is expected to have expanded to eight runways including one for military use, and will be able to welcome 100 million passengers per year—which will make it the world's largest single terminal in terms of traveller capacity, according to its designers.

Atlanta airport, in the United States, can currently receive more than a hundred million passengers, but across two terminals.

The current Beijing Daxing International Airport—the world's second largest—is already overflowing, with just over 100 million passengers annually.

Air transport is booming in China as living standards increase along with peoples' desire to travel. Indeed, it will pass the US to become the world's biggest aviation market by the mid-2020s, according to the International Air Transport Association.

The country will see 1.6 billion plane journeys each year from 2037—a billion more than in 2017, the organisation estimates.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 02 2019, @05:19AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday July 02 2019, @05:19AM (#862286) Homepage
    Or not...
    2010: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html
    2013: https://io9.gizmodo.com/chinas-brand-new-abandoned-cities-could-be-dystopian-m-1238731420
    2016: https://www.dw.com/en/what-has-become-of-chinas-ghost-cities/a-36525007
    2019: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/02/china-vacant-apartments-housing-market-bubble-ghost-cities/583528/
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