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A guideline, which aims to push forward coordinated development of civil aviation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area (or Jing-Jin-Ji in their abbreviations), was approved at a meeting presided by Feng Zhenglin, head of the Civil Aviation Administration, on Monday. Airspace integration and comprehensive transportation connectivity will be basically achieved in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by 2030, building a more powerful policy guarantee system, the guideline said.
A total of 23 tasks were put forward to build a world-class airport cluster and aviation hub, serving the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster, according to the guideline. The existing Beijing Capital International Airport has reached maximum handling capacity and so the capital city is building its new civil airport - the Daxing International Airport - which will be the second-largest airport in the city. The facility, located adjacent to Daxing district in Beijing and Langfang in the neighboring Hebei province, will involve RMB 79.98 billion (USD 13.11 billion) of investment and take about five years to complete, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. The airport is designed to handle 72 million passengers, 2 million tons of cargo, and 620,000 planes in 2025. Meanwhile, Tianjin Binhai International Airport and Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport have already taken measures to diversify their services and facilitate journeys. China unveiled coordinated development plans for Beijing and its two neighboring areas - Tianjin municipality and Hebei province - in 2015. Under the plans, China will build Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei into an international city cluster and "create a new growth engine" by boosting technological innovation in the area. |
