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Airport
Updated: Mar 14, 2018
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Zhanjiang has a national 4D-level airport, capable of landing a Boeing 757 and other large passenger planes, and air routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong have been opened. It will be relocated at Heshan village, Tangzhui town in Zhanjiang's Wuchuan, to be built as the future western Guangdong airline hub. Construction is expected to kick off in the first half of 2018.
In the first five months of 2017, the existing Zhanjiang Airport served 839,000 passengers, up 34 percent.
The 4.3-billion-yuan new airport is expected to have a passenger throughput of 4.2 million people by 2025, among whom 200,000 are expected to be foreign travelers.
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