By 2037 China will be serving 1.6bn air passengers yearly: 1bn more than in 2017, the International Air Transport Association reckons
many superlatives to describe a massive new airport nearing completion in Daxing district on Beijing’s southern edge. It deserves them all. The golden-roofed terminal is a triumph of design by Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born British architect who died in 2016, a few days after work on the edifice began. At 180,000 square metres the building’s steel roof, they say, is the largest of any airport terminal. The ground floor has the world’s biggest seamless single slab of concrete.
It was only just over a decade ago that the capital was boasting the completion of what it then called the world’s largest man-made structure—terminal three of the current main aviation hub, Beijing Capital international airport. That building , along with a new runway, more than doubled the airport’s capacity to 80m passengers per year. Last year, however, Capital airport handled more than 100m travellers, making it the world’s second-busiest, after Atlanta in America.
The airport is also intended as a gift for the relatively underdeveloped region south of the capital where it is located . It is roughly equidistant between the centre of Beijing and a new city, Xiongan, that is being built in Hebei province, south of Daxing, to relieve population pressure on the capital . The cost of new infrastructure around Daxing, including road and high-speed rail links between the airport, Xiongan and downtown Beijing, is four times as much as the facility itself.
China needs many more new airports. The International Air Transport Association predicts that by the mid-2020s China will surpass America as the world’s largest aviation market. By 2037 China will be serving 1.6bn air passengers yearly, 1bn more than in 2017, it reckons. But airlines also need more room in China’s sky. The People’s Liberation Army keeps rigid control of around 75% of Chinese airspace, a far greater share than most other countries reserve for defence purposes.
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