Sanming Shaxian Airport is an airport serving the city of
Sanming
Sanming (, Foochow Romanized: Săng-mìng), also known as Minzhong (), is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to th ...
in
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...
Province,
China
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. It is located in Fenggang Subdistrict of
Shaxian District. The airport was opened on 7 March 2016.
History
Construction of Sanming Airport was first approved by the national government in 1993 and began in 1995, but stopped in 1998 in the wake of the
1997 Asian financial crisis
The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and Southeast Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. However, the recovery in 1998–1 ...
after 160 million yuan was already spent.
Construction resumed in 2005 with private investment, and the airport was declared the first privately owned airport in China,
but soon stopped again for undisclosed reasons. In 2009, construction started for the third time, back with government funding worth 1.447 billion yuan.
The airport was opened on 7 March 2016.
Facilities
The airport has one runway that is long (extendable to in the future) and wide (class 4C), and a terminal building. It is designed to handle 430,000 passengers annually by 2020.
Airlines and destinations