Shangrao Sanqingshan Airport is an airport serving the city of

Shangrao Shangrao () is a medium-sized prefecture-level city located in the northeast of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. The city borders the province of Anhui to the north, the province of Zhejiang to the east, and the province of Fujian to t ...

in the northeast of

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

province, China. The airport is from the city center (16 km by road) and from Mount Sanqing National Park, the

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after which it is named. In addition to Shangrao, the airport also serves the nearby cities of Yingtan and Fuzhou, Jiangxi. The airport was approved by the

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in October 2011, and construction started on 8 July 2012. Shangrao Sanqingshan Airport was budgeted to cost 666 million yuan to build (approximately US$105 million) and was partially funded with a $50 million loan from the

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. It was the first Chinese aviation project funded by the World Bank. The airport opened on 28 May 2017, with an inaugural

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flight from

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Facilities

The airport has a 2,400-meter runway and a 6,000 square-meter terminal building.

Airlines and destinations

References

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Facilities

Airlines and destinations

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