These projects will attract greater investment in specific areas like logistics, high-technology and finance and will encourage economy to help it move away from the smoke-stack industry that has rapidly grown in the years.
After years of massive investment, Beijing is trying to turn the economy more towards consumption-led growth.
The three aviation hubs Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, deal with a third of the passengers and half of the cargo of China. Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport, less than 300 km (190 miles) from Beijing, will reimburse the cost of people’s travel to the airport from eight cities, including the capital, in order to attract passengers following a 4 billion-yuan ($645 million) expansion.
But despite such tough competition Zhengzhou, a city 650 km (400 miles) south of Beijing is looking ahead to expending its trade at its existing airport 10 fold to $200 billion by 2025 by adding three more runways.
Xie Fuzhan, governor of China’s most populous Henan province felt confident about working out the logistic cost from Zhengzhou to eastern, western and central part of China, he said that highways will be built to connect the airport to the rest of China.
The airport fever still remains. Among the projects, the northeast coastal city of Dalian is building a 20.9 square kilometre island for a brand new airport, the largest of its kind in the world. Hilly Shennongjia, in central Hubei province, has flattened the tops of five mountains to build its airport.
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