Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will form a network of world-class airports
Almaty. September 17. Silkroadnews - Beijing was elected the capital of Winter Olympic Games in 2022, that Chinese capital will hold together with the city of Zhangjiakou, reported the newspaper "People's Daily".
"The network of world-class airports always appear in addition to the major metropolitan areas", - said the CEO of "Beijing Capital Airport" Liu Xuesong appealing to the Chinese government adopted coordinated program of development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province.
As noted in the publication, globally the most mature recognized five agglomerations: the north-eastern United States on the Atlantic coast (New York), the Great Lakes in North America (Chicago), Japan, on the Pacific coast (Tokyo), UK (London) and north-western Europe (Paris).
Apart from the international airport "Shoudu" Chinese capital in 2019 will find another airport, whose construction is already underway. Prior to its completion the airport "Shoudu" has decided to refuse to increase the number of charter flights-Trucking, opening additional passenger flights, as well as new regular cargo flights on domestic routes.
This, of course, is done in the interest of airports in Tianjin and Shijiazhuang.
According to official data, during the first half of this year, Shijiazhuang Airport brought the number of international routes and the volume of passenger traffic up to 14 lines and 204 thousand people, respectively, by 55.6% and 83.3% above last year's figures for January-June. In turn, the Tianjin Airport reports passenger growth of 17.5% to 9.19 million people, and for the year expected this figure will not be below 14 million people.