Zunyi Xinzhou Airport is a dual-use military and civil airport serving the city of
Zunyi
Zunyi () is a prefecture-level city in northern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, situated between the provincial capital Guiyang to the south and Chongqing to the north, also bordering Sichuan to the northwest. Along with Guiyang an ...
in China's southwestern
Guizhou Province
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to the ...
. It is located in the town of Xinzhou in Xinpu New Area. The military air base was built in 1966 and completed in 1970.
In September 2009 construction was started to convert the air base to a dual-use airport, with an estimated total investment of 408 million yuan.
The airport opened on 28 August 2012, with inaugural flights to
Beijing
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and
Guangzhou
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.
Facilities
The airport has a 2,800-meter runway (class 4C)
and an 11,000 square meter terminal building that is designed to resemble the site of
Zunyi Conference
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. It is projected to handle 300,000 passengers annually by 2020,
although during its first year in operation the airport has already handled 309,531.
Airlines and destinations