China News Service, Beijing, April 30 (Du Yan and Xu Jing) Departing from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 46 kilometers south along the central axis, it is a landmark building standing in the southern part of Beijing—Beijing Daxing International Airport.

  On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, reporters from Chinanews.com walked into this "world-class engineering miracle" and "Republic Super Project" to relive the birth of a new miracle in the history of Chinese architecture and experience Chinese technology , China's speed, the perfect presentation of China's power.

Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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Innovation runs through the whole process of construction and operation

  Not long after the founding of New China, on November 2, 1949, the Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee decided to establish a Civil Aviation Bureau to manage civil aviation.

Since then, the development of civil aviation in New China has experienced an extraordinary development process from scratch, from small to large, and from weak to strong.

  In 1958, Beijing Capital International Airport was put into use as a modern civil airport constructed during China's first five-year plan.

With the development of China's society, the demand for civil aviation travel has greatly increased. The Capital Airport has undergone three large-scale expansions, but it still cannot meet the demand.

Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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  The construction of the new airport is imperative.

After more than ten years of repeated demonstrations on site selection, four years of collaboration between Chinese and foreign designers, a 54-month construction period, with a total number of more than 100,000 people participating in the construction, spanning Beijing and Hebei, covering an area of ​​27 square kilometers The new airport-Beijing Daxing International Airport was officially put into operation on September 25, 2019.

  The difficulty of project construction has surprised the world, and the British "Guardian" listed it as the first of the "Seven Wonders of the New World".

  "Every time I look at the airport, it is a golden color." Du Xiaoming, deputy general manager of the Daxing Airport Planning and Development Department, said that the airport was still enthusiastic when it was put into operation for 19 months.

  He came to the Beijing New Airport Construction Headquarters in 2011 to participate in the planning and design.

In his view, as a major landmark project in the capital, Daxing International Airport is not only a new source of power for the country's development, but also a new country that implements the new development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing".

Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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  The Daxing Airport terminal complex has a total construction area of ​​approximately 1.43 million square meters, which is equivalent to six national stadiums ("Bird's Nest").

Among them, the area of ​​the terminal building of Daxing Airport is about 700,000 square meters.

  Walking into the terminal building, the biggest feeling is that it is spacious and bright.

"60% of the area in the building can achieve natural lighting." Du Xiaoming said that a total of 12,800 pieces of glass are used in the entire terminal building, of which more than 8,000 pieces of glass are used for the dome, and each piece of glass has a unique angle, and no two pieces are exactly the same. Yes, especially these glasses use advanced technology and materials to introduce natural light to the greatest extent, isolate ultraviolet rays to the greatest extent, and strive to provide passengers with the best illuminance and comfort, even in the summer under direct sunlight.

  "Such a design reduces the energy consumption of the Daxing airport terminal by 20% compared to an airport terminal of the same size, and can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 22,000 tons per year, which is equivalent to planting 1.19 million trees." He said, Daxing Airport Development and Application 103 new patents and new technologies, 65 new processes and new construction methods.

  The roof steel structure of the terminal building weighs more than 40,000 tons and is supported by only 8 C-shaped columns.

The C-shaped pillars are 200 meters apart from each other. The largest space surrounded by these pillars can place a water cube and provide passengers with the largest public space. The radioactive configuration of the five-finger corridor greatly improves the process efficiency of the terminal building. Passengers move from the center of the terminal building. The walking distance from the point to the farthest end is no more than 600 meters, and the walk is about 8 minutes.

  Full coverage of 5G signals, full-process self-service, paperless traffic, face-sweeping boarding, and smart security have become the new standard equipment of Daxing Airport.

The layout of the toilets in the terminal building and the ratio of male and female squatting positions were determined after investigation and simulation.

  "People-oriented concept innovation and management innovation run through the entire process of construction and operation." Du Xiaoming introduced that the entire project of Daxing Airport is a full life cycle project. Planning and design are implemented one by one to achieve one strategy, one goal and a consistent pace for the entire airport.

  The strong Chinese style pervades the airport.

The bamboo forest, the central axis landscape, and the five “air gardens” at the end of the five corridors, the Chinese Garden, Porcelain Garden, Pastoral Garden, Silk Garden, and Tea Garden, allow visitors to walk in the corridors, pavilions, pavilions, streams, stones, flowers, grasses, etc. Get a rest in the forest and experience Chinese culture.

Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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Build a modern comprehensive transportation hub

  "Daxing Airport represents the highest level of airports that have been built." Du Xiaoming believes that Daxing Airport is not only the first breakthrough project for civil aviation, but also because it is located in the hinterland of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, it is the focus of "transportation first" in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei engineering.

  As he has seen in recent years, with Daxing Airport as the node, the construction of a modern integrated transportation hub has ushered in a new chapter.

Expressways, high-speed railways, urban railways... the backbone of the "five vertical and two horizontal" transportation networks converge here and extend to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and even North China.

Daxing Airport, Capital Airport, Tianjin Airport, and Shijiazhuang Airport have reasonable positioning and differentiated development to solve the problems of "not eating", "not enough" and "not eating", forming a more complete form of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei airport cluster, and building a world-class airport cluster .

  “The shortest time from Caoqiao on the South Third Ring Road to Daxing Airport is only 19 minutes.” Du Xiaoming said that in the city terminal of Caoqiao Metro Station, passengers can handle domestic and international check-in, luggage security and consignment services.

In the future, such urban terminals will be built in Beijing's Lize Financial and Business District, Beijing City Sub-center, Xiong'an New District, Zhuozhou and other places in Hebei Province.

Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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  Daxing Airport is 46 kilometers north of Tiananmen Square, 54 kilometers northeast to Beijing's sub-center, 55 kilometers southwest to Xiongan New District, and 82 kilometers southeast to Tianjin City.

  Infrastructure construction drives the optimization of integrated transportation layout, achieving access to major cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in one hour, major cities in northern China within two hours, and major cities in northern China within three hours; integrated construction of terminal comprehensive transportation hubs, domestic For the first time, the shortest connection time of air-rail combined transportation is 60 minutes.

  Du Xiaoming said that in the process of construction, Daxing Airport has become more and more aware that Daxing Airport plays an important role in the orderly advancement of industrial decentralization, the rational flow of economic factors, and the balanced sharing of public services.

In particular, the construction of the Airport Economic Zone jointly established by Beijing and Hebei Province has been accelerated. The Daxing area of ​​the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone and the high-end industrial area of ​​the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone have been listed one after another. This airport has gradually become a driving force for Beijing and Tianjin. The "new engine" for local economic development in the Hebei region.

  Daxing Airport is agitated with huge energy, and the interline transportation radiates the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta, and also promotes the benign interactive development of the development of world-class airport clusters and urban clusters.

Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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Daily passenger flow continues to hit new highs

  According to the plan, Daxing Airport is positioned as a large-scale international aviation hub. It is estimated that the annual passenger throughput of the airport will reach 45 million by 2022, and the annual passenger throughput will reach 72 million by 2025, which can meet the annual passenger throughput in the long term1 The demand for more than 100 million people.

  So, can Daxing International Airport, which has experienced the new crown pneumonia epidemic, achieve its set goals as scheduled?

  "A sudden outbreak of the epidemic has impacted the past rhythm." Yang Yu, the business manager of the Daxing Airport Operation Management Department, said that as the new gate of China, Daxing Airport has made every effort to ensure the smooth operation of the airport in this epidemic prevention and control battle. Passengers travel safely.

  Affected by the epidemic, the civil aviation industry has been greatly affected. From March 13, 2020, all international flights operated by Daxing International Airport will be transferred to Capital Airport for operation.

The business volume in the first half of the year was much lower than expected, and in the second half of 2020, it will rise against the trend.

In 2020, Daxing International Airport achieved 16.0914 million passengers throughout the year, ranking 17th among airports in the country.

  He said that as China's epidemic prevention and control has achieved phased results, the number of passengers at Daxing International Airport has continued to increase. "Safe, fast, smooth, and healthy travel" has become a new feature of passenger travel under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.

  Since it was put into operation, Daxing Airport has undergone 4 flight seasons and 5 large-scale flight transfers.

The number of flight schedules has changed from 134 flights per day operated by China United Airlines to 980 flights per day at present.

  Yang Yu introduced that since March 16 this year, the schedule execution rate and passenger load factor of Daxing Airport have been increasing.

As of April 26, 2021, Daxing Airport has completed a total of 7,411,300 passenger throughputs this year, guaranteeing 64,500 inbound and outbound flights.

At present, there are an average of more than 850 flights in and out of Hong Kong every day, and an average of more than 110,000 passengers are carried every day.

  "We have formulated a detailed plan to prepare for the large passenger flow during the May Day holiday. With the gradual recovery of the aviation market, the daily passenger flow continues to create new highs." Yang Yu said that it is expected that the next season (October 31, 2021) From today), Daxing Airport's floating planned flight volume will reach 1,050 daily.

  "Daxing Airport carries the original intention of civil aviation people to build a strong civil aviation country, the new power source mission of the national Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, and the people's pursuit of safer, more convenient and green travel." Feng Zhenglin, Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Zeng Said so.

  The reporter learned that the plan for the satellite building of Daxing Airport and the second phase of the airport is currently underway.

  A five-star red flag hanging high in the center of the terminal building welcomes passengers sent to all directions. It will also witness the new miracle brought by the "Phoenix" wings to this land and witness China's new development in the new era.

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