China News Service, Xi'an, May 1 (Reporter Alina) On the 30th, Shaanxi's important general aviation hub airport-Xi'an Lantian General Airport project was officially approved by the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission. The Xi'an Lantian Aviation Industrial Park, which uses the airport as a carrier, has launched a phase 943.55 acres of global bidding for airport and functional area planning and design. This marks that Xi'an Lantian General Airport has entered a substantial construction stage.
In February 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission approved Xi'an to be included in the first batch of national general aviation industry comprehensive demonstration zones. In November of the same year, the National Development and Reform Commission formally approved the "Xi'an National General Aviation Industry Comprehensive Demonstration Zone Implementation Plan", proposing to build a more complete general aviation industry chain with Xi'an as the center, and to build a "one base, multiple parks" development pattern.
2019 Xi'an Air Show. Photo courtesy of Xi'an Airlines Base
After many researches, Xi'an Aviation Base planned to build the Xi'an Lantian General Aviation Airport, the core of Shaanxi's general aviation airport network, and vigorously develop the "hub economy" to improve the Xi'an aviation economic industry chain The eastern transport function system will further develop and expand the size of the aviation industry cluster.
According to the approval of the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Xi’an Lantian General Airport has a total investment of 730 million yuan. It will be constructed according to the A1 level general airport and flight zone level 2B standards. It will mainly build a new runway with a length of 1200 meters and a width of 30 meters. Storage, office, air traffic control and other facilities. The construction of the Xi'an Lantian General Airport project will meet the development needs of general aviation services such as regional air exhibitions, business flights, flight training, and emergency rescue, further improve the comprehensive transportation system in Xi'an, and promote economic and social development.
Relying on Xi'an Lantian General Airport, Xi'an Aviation Base has carried out a comprehensive co-construction work with Lantian County in the "enclave" mode and Lantian County's Xi'an Lantian Aviation Industrial Park, led by industrial innovation, based on airport construction, and radiated 14.9 square meters around the airport. Within a kilometer range, we will focus on building an external exchange platform for the Silk Road Economic Belt and promoting the investment and development of the international navigation industry in Shaanxi, and to create an emerging sector and a power engine for Shaanxi's "three economies" and the construction of an international metropolis in Xi'an.
It is understood that the first phase of the Xi’an Lantian Aviation Industrial Park has a planned land area of approximately 943.55 acres, and adopts the construction mode of “group development, green wedge embedding, and green belt tandem connection”, including general aviation airport, Xi’an aviation exhibition site, aviation expo project, aviation industry Projects and other formats, focusing on the construction of general aviation airports and related supporting facilities, the construction of relevant venues for the Xi’an Airshow, and the initial development of the general aviation-related cultural tourism industry, shaping the spatial pattern of “regional linkage and global tourism”.
With the continuous progress of construction, Xi'an Lantian Aviation Industry Park will gradually expand the industrial zone to the north and south, forming a new ecology of aviation manufacturing aviation R & D industry, and provide for the successful convening of the 7th China International General Aviation Conference (Xi'an Air Show) in 2021. Fundamental support, comprehensively build an international aviation industry investment and development center for the Silk Road, build a benchmark aviation industry chain that radiates to the west, form a "general navigation + tourism + industry" multi-sector complementary industry investment ecosystem, and drive regional industries to develop rapidly development of. (Finish)