(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) National Development and Reform Commission: Promoting Hubei Ezhou to Build China's First Airport Focused on Freight Functions
China News Agency, Beijing, March 29 (Reporter Li Yanan) Ren Hong, a first-level inspector of the Infrastructure Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, said in Beijing on the 29th that China's first airport mainly based on freight functions will be promoted in Ezhou, Hubei. Construction, according to the current plan, is expected to be operational by the end of 2021 or early 2022.
The State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference on the same day to introduce the relevant situation of enhancing the international air cargo capacity and stabilizing the supply chain.
At the press conference, Ren Hong introduced that Ezhou is China's first airport mainly focused on cargo transportation. Its functional positioning is a cargo hub and passenger regional airport. It is planned and designed in accordance with 3.3 million tons of cargo and mail throughput in 2030. Introduce social capital to settle in Ezhou Airport, and fund the construction of Ezhou Airport's air cargo facilities. This is also China's first social capital and enterprise entry project into the airport, and it is also China's first airport project mainly with cargo functions.
She said that the construction of Ezhou Airport has begun smoothly in the second half of 2019. Although there has been some delay due to the epidemic situation, it has now resumed work. According to the current plan, it is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2021 or early 2022.
Ren Hong said that by the end of 2019, there will be 235 Chinese transport airports. In 2019, the passenger throughput was 1.35 billion, an increase of 6.9% year-on-year, the same-year futures mail throughput reached 17.1 million tons, the cargo-mail throughput growth was only 2.1% year-on-year, and the rate of freight growth was much lower than that of passenger traffic. Early stages of development.
She pointed out that nearly 50% of China's air cargo volume is concentrated in the three major airports of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. From the perspective of international freight, the international cargo volume of five major airports in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou has concentrated 90% of the country's . There are two types of cargo airports that China undertakes. One is a comprehensive airport such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and the other is a special-purpose airport mainly based on freight functions. The current 235 airports are basically comprehensive airports. Cargo-dominated airports are still zero in China.
Ren Hong said that with the rapid development of e-commerce and express logistics in recent years, China's air cargo airport has also presented a trend of diversification, logistics and professional development, and put forward many new and higher requirements for the airport.
"Especially since the new crown pneumonia epidemic, in terms of air cargo, we have also exposed that we have no shortcomings in professional air cargo, and we do not have a complete air cargo airport system." Ren Hong pointed out that airports that mainly focus on freight functions Construction is an important task.
"In the" Fifteenth Five-Year Plan "period, we will accelerate the construction of an airport with a market-oriented freight function as the basis for the construction of Ezhou Airport. Ren Hong said. (Finish)