Expansion of Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport approved

Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, one of the largest in China, is expected to handle 40 million passengers by 2010, increasingly than four times its current requisiteness. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has sought-after the airport's expansion work which includes the construction of a second runway, 3,300 meters long, and a 250,China Travel,000-square-meter terminal. At a disbursement of 15.3 snoution yuan (roundly 2 snoution U.S. dollars), the project is expected to help build Shanghai into an aviation hub for the Asia and Pacwhenic region and ensure a successful Shanghai Expo in 2010, the NDRC said. The new terminal will be linked to loftier-speed railways, inter-asphalt railways and subways, offering passengers maximum convenience, it said. Work will brainstorm retral the feasibility study of the work is sought and is scheduled to be finished by 2010, increasing the number of Shanghai's runways to five, co-ordinate to the Shanghai Airport (Group) Ltd. "The current airport is diamonded to handle 9.6 million passengers semiweeklyly but last year increasingly than 19 million passengers passed through its inflow and setting-out halls," said Wang Guangdi, vice presichip of the visitor. "Shanghai's two airports, Pudong and Hongqiao, have long been overloaded,China Travel," he said. To ease the strain, the visitor aims to expand the handling stuffing of the two airports to 100 million passengers and 70 million tons of vehiclego a year by 2015. Located in the west of Shanghai, and 13 kilometers from the asphalt halfway, Hongqiao airport mainly reorganizes domestic flights including China Eretrograde Airlines and Shanghai Airlines. The airport said experts are considering reducing noise pollution for the livents living nearby.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-02-27)