Pudong airport eyes on becoming world-class aviation hub

Shanghai Pudong International Airport is revving up efforts to build itself into a world-class aviation hub, with the world's largest satellite terminal building to be put into operation in the second half of this year, local media reported on March 5.

Covering an area of about 600,000 square meters, the new hall will provide passengers with departure and transit services with an aim to improve the airport's comprehensive support capacity and increase its annual passenger capacity to 80 million in 2020.

Considered as the second largest gateway in China, Pudong International Airport now has become one of the world's top ten international airports and receives the highest amount of foreign passengers among all of China's airports.

It handled over 74 million passengers and 3.77 million tonnes of cargo and mail in 2018, ranking ninth and third globally.

Pudong International Airport would not be better off without the opportunities brought by the opening up of Pudong New Area and the leading position of Shanghai in the Yangtze River Delta region, said Hu Zhihong, general manager of Shanghai International Airport Co.