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Yiwu Airport
Yiwu Airport is a dual-use military and civil airport serving Yiwu, Jinhua in Zhejiang Province, China. It is located northwest of the center of Yiwu and from the urban area of Jinhua. History Yiwu airport was originally a military training airfield for the People's Liberation Army Navy. In 1988 the national government approved the conversion of the airfield to a dual-use military and civil airport. The airport was opened to civilian flights on 1 April 1991. In December 1993 the airport was closed for a 100-million yuan expansion, and reopened in December 1994. A second round of expansion began in 2006 with a total investment of 300 million yuan, and a new terminal building was opened in April 2009. Facilities Yiwu Airport had a runway that was 2,500 meters long and 45 meters wide, and an 18,000 square-meter terminal building. It is capable of handling 1 million passengers per year. In 2015, construction began to extend the runway by 500 meters and to build a parallel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiwu
Yiwu () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua in Central Zhejiang Province, East China. As of the 2020 census, the city had 1,859,390 inhabitants and its built-up (or metro) area, joined with that of the neighboring Dongyang, was home to 2,947,340 inhabitants. The city is famous for its light industry commodity trade and vibrant market and as a regional tourist destination. History Yiwu was founded as Wushang County in 222 BCE, right before the Qin dynasty. It was renamed Yiwu County in 624 CE. Trade has been historically important in Yiwu since the surrounding area has little arable soil. Even before 1600s, Yiwu men would carry sewing needles, threads, sugar chunks and other small commodities in their bamboo baskets, using a shoulder-pole and travel to surrounding rural villages in exchange for chicken feathers. Chicken feathers could be either used as a fertilizer for their own lands or made into feather dusters for exporting. This "Sugar-For- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport
Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport is an airport serving the city of Qingdao in Shandong province, China. It received approval in December 2013, and replaced Qingdao Liuting International Airport as the city's main airport. It is located in Jiaodong, Jiaozhou, from the center of Qingdao. The airport opened on 12 August 2021 and is currently the largest airport in Shandong, capable of handling 35 million passengers annually. History Timeline June 2015 – Groundbreaking ceremony. June 2016 – Hoisting of the first steel ball in the terminal building. April 2017 – Start of construction phase. October 2018 – Start of testing phase. September 2019 – Start of large-scale decoration and equipment installation. June 2020 – Terminal building construction and civil aviation professional project pass completion acceptance; project completion. January 2021 – Two aircraft successfully completed test flights. August 12, 2021 – Officially opened. Facilities The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenyang Taoxian International Airport
Shenyang Taoxian International Airport is an airport serving Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province. It is located about south of the city center in Hunnan District. It is a focus city for China Southern Airlines and is the 23rd busiest airport in China with 19,027,398 passengers as of 2018. Lufthansa offered the first intercontinental service out of Shenyang, to Frankfurt, Germany, in April 2012 but discontinued it on 28 October 2016 before relaunching it on 27 March 2018. Later in 2012, Sichuan Airlines launched service to Vancouver. History Construction started on 1 July 1985, and the airport opened on 16 April 1989, and was the main hub of China Northern Airlines, which started operating a year later. Before the airport existed, , was the main airport of Shenyang, built in 1921, served destinations to USSR, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and hence, domestically. However, although it was expanded several times and having a long enough runway to support narro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanya Phoenix International Airport
Sanya Phoenix International Airport is an airport serving the city of Sanya in Hainan, the southernmost province of China. It is located about northwest of the city center. Sanya Phoenix International Airport is a main airport hub and comprises close to ten thousand acres. The runway is about long and wide, which satisfies the take off and landing requirements of a fully weighted Boeing 747, Airbus A340 or other large aircraft. It is the second busiest airport in Hainan, the busiest being Haikou Meilan International Airport. However, it was the first airport in Hainan to launch transcontinental air service, when Transaero Airlines started operating non-stop to Sanya from Moscow as early as 2007. The service was discontinued after Transaero ceased operations in 2015. Since 2017, several Russian airlines including IrAero, Alrosa and Azur Air have begun operating from various Russian cities, fueling the growth of tourism from Russia in Hainan. In 2017, it was the 20th busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanning Wuxu International Airport
Nanning Wuxu International Airport is an airport serving Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. It is located south-west of the centre of the city. The airport was built in 1962, with improvements made in 1990. Terminal 2, with an area measuring , opened on 25 September 2014. It is designed to handle 16 million passengers annually. The number of passengers reached 1 million in 2002, and jumped to 2 million by 2006. In 2016, 11.56 million passengers used the airport. History during World War II During World War II, the airport was known as Nanning Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China Defensive Campaign (1942–1945). It was used primarily by reconnaissance units, which operated unarmed P-38 Lightning photo-recon aircraft that flew over Japanese-held territory and obtained intelligence used by combat units. Detachments of fighter and bomber squadrons also operated occasionally from the airfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jieyang Chaoshan Airport
Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport is an airport serving the cities of Jieyang, Shantou, Chaozhou and nearby areas in eastern Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the towns of Paotai and Denggang in Jiedong District, Jieyang, Guangdong. It was part of a relocation plan from the original Shantou Waisha Airport, and the site was chosen to be near the geographic center of Jieyang, Shantou, and Chaozhou. The airport was put into service on 15 December 2011, with the simultaneous shut-down of Shantou Waisha Airport as a commercial airport. History The city of Shantou was formerly served by Shantou Waisha Airport, a dual-use military and civil airport. Construction of Jieyang Chaoshan Airport began on 16 June 2009 with a total investment of 3.8 billion yuan. In November 2011, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection halted the construction of the airport due to unauthorized deviations from the approved environmental impact report. The airport authorities subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is the major airport of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in Southern China. Both airport codes were inherited from the former Baiyun Airport, and the IATA code is derived from Guangzhou's historical romanization ''Canton''. Baiyun Airport serves as a hub for China Southern Airlines, FedEx Express, 9 Air, Hainan Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines. In 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation, it was the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic, handling 43.8 million passengers. In 2021, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was the world's eighth- busiest airport by passenger traffic, with 40.2 million passengers handled, making it also the busiest airport outside the United States, and the busiest in China. As for cargo traffic, the airport was China's second-busiest, as well as the second-busiest airport worldwide in terms of aircraft movements. Overview 1932–2004 The old Baiyun Airport opened in 1932. Due to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changchun Longjia International Airport
Changchun Longjia International Airport is an international airport in Jilin Province, China, for which it is an aviation hub in China's Civil Airport System. The airport is north-east of provincial capital Changchun and north-west of Jilin City: responsibility for the operation of the airport is shared by both cities. Changchun Airport is a regional hub for . History Longjia International Airport was approved for construction in 1998. Construction started on 29 May 2003, and the airport began its operations on 27 August 2005. It is named after Longjia (), the town whe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Daxing International Airport
Beijing Daxing International Airport , is one of two international airports serving Beijing, the other one being Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK). It is located on the border of Beijing and Langfang, Hebei Province. It has been nicknamed "the starfish." It was completed on June 30, 2019, and began operations on September 26, 2019. The airport is south of Tiananmen Square, west of downtown Langfang, northeast of Xiong'an, Xiong'an New Area, and south of Beijing Capital International Airport, and serves Jing-Jin-Ji, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. It is a hub for SkyTeam alliance airlines and some Oneworld members, while most Star Alliance members have remained at Beijing Capital International, as has Hainan Airlines. After almost five years of construction, the Renminbi, CN¥ 80 billion (US$11.4 billion) facility features a Airport terminal, terminal, the world's largest single-building airport terminal, and sits on of land. The airport won the award of best a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bazhong Enyang Airport
Bazhong Enyang Airport is an airport serving the city of Bazhong in China's southwestern Sichuan province. It is located in Xinglong Town, Enyang District, about by road from the city center. The airport received approval from the State Council and the Central Military Commission of China on 3 July 2014. Construction began on 5 February 2015, and the airport was opened on 3 February 2019, with an inaugural Sichuan Airlines flight from Chengdu. It is operated by Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport , also known as Jiuzhaigou Airport () and Jiuhuang Airport, is an airport in Songpan County, Sichuan province, China. This airport serves two major scenic places of interest in this area, namely Huanglong Scenic and His ... Company. Facilities Bazhong Airport is a class 4C airport, with a 2,600-meter runway. It is projected to handle 900,000 passengers annually. Airlines and destinations See also * List of airports in China * List of the busiest airports in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Southern Airlines
China Southern Airlines Company Limited is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and is the largest airline in China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acquired and merged a number of domestic airlines, the airline became one of China's "Big Three" airlines (alongside Air China and China Eastern Airlines), the Largest airlines in the world, world's sixth-largest airline measured by passengers carried and Asia's Largest airlines in the world#By fleet size, largest airline in fleet size, revenue, and passengers carried. With its main hubs at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport, the airline operates more than 2,000 flights to more than 200 destinations daily and was a member of SkyTeam until 1 January 2019. The airline started a frequent flyer program partnership with American Airlines in March 2019. The logo of the airline co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Express Airlines
China Express Airlines () is a regional airline with its corporate headquarters on the grounds of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, Chongqing, China. History China Express Airlines, also known as Huaxia Airlines, is China's first private regional airline. The airline was established in May 2006 and is owned by Cathay Fortune (40%), High Zero (25%), Tampines International (24%) and others (11%). On August 28, 2010, a China Express Airlines Bombardier Bombardier CRJ200 regional jet scraped the ground on landing at Guiyang Airport in southwest China. No one was injured during the incident. On 1 September 2010, China's Civil Aviation Administration ordered the airline to suspend operations after a landing incident at Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport in which an aircraft's right wing made contact with the runway during landing. The airline was ordered to review its safety regulations and perform an investigation into the incident. On 6 September, Chinese authorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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