Aeroportos, prazos e números

Western China to have 37 new airports between 2006-10

Western China will have additional 37 airports during the 11th Five-year Plan period (2006-2010), of which six are relocated, and 31 others rebuilt or extended. The overall airport reconstruction project in the western China region will cost 52 billion yuan (6.5 billion US dollars), including an input of 9.6 billion yuan (1.2 billion dollars) and the sum is higher than the input for the same use in east China, according to media reports from the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC).

At present, the western region has a total of 54 civil-use airports, or 38% of the total number of airports in China. And the airport density in northwest area, nevertheless, is merely one fifth of that in eastern China. With a rapid economic growth, the vast western region has a growing demand for increased civil aviation. Especially in those outlying areas, airport construction outweighs that of rail routes.