Beijing’s giant new airport helps China rival US in the skies
Just 5 years ago, Daxing was a dusty area of farmland to the south of Beijing, largely neglected by visitors to the city. That’s no longer the case, now that an enormous airport has emerged there to thrust China even closer to toppling the US as the world’s biggest aviation market. Beijing Daxing International, an US$11.2b starfish-shaped structure hailed by state media as a “new gateway” to the country, opens just in time for the People’s Republic of China’s 70th birthday. A state-of-the-art terminal is designed to eventually handle more than 100m passengers a year. Within 2 decades, annual passenger traffic in China’s skies will reach 1.6b, according to IATA, more than the country’s population today. China has set a goal of having 450 commercial airports by 2035, almost double the number at the end of 2018. <br/>
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Beijing’s giant new airport helps China rival US in the skies
Just 5 years ago, Daxing was a dusty area of farmland to the south of Beijing, largely neglected by visitors to the city. That’s no longer the case, now that an enormous airport has emerged there to thrust China even closer to toppling the US as the world’s biggest aviation market. Beijing Daxing International, an US$11.2b starfish-shaped structure hailed by state media as a “new gateway” to the country, opens just in time for the People’s Republic of China’s 70th birthday. A state-of-the-art terminal is designed to eventually handle more than 100m passengers a year. Within 2 decades, annual passenger traffic in China’s skies will reach 1.6b, according to IATA, more than the country’s population today. China has set a goal of having 450 commercial airports by 2035, almost double the number at the end of 2018. <br/>
