That's the same year aviation analysts predict China will be handling a quarter of all the world's air passengers. "There are three international airports in New York and five in London; Beijing will open its second airport this year. Chengdu's new Tianfu International Airport, due to open in 2020, was designed by a consortium made up of the China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute, China Airport Construction Group Corporation and French architectural firm ADP Ingenierie. It will initially accommodate 72 million passengers and two million tons of cargo annually, rising to at least 100 million passengers and four million tons of cargo a year when fully opened. Building hundreds of new airports is merely one step for a country reinventing itself on the way to becoming the next major superpower.

Source: CNN May 25, 2019 23:48 UTC