China aims to add 216 new airports by 2035 and develop some regional transport hubs, China Daily quoted the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) as saying on Tuesday.
《中国日报》周二援引中国民航总局的话称,中国的目标是到2035年新增216个机场,并开发一些区域性交通枢纽。As of the end of October, China had 234 civil airports and is expected to have around 450 by 2035, according to a civil aviation development guideline from the CAAC, the newspaper reported.
据该报报道,中国民航总局发布的民航发展规划显示,截至10月底,中国共有民用机场234个,预计到2035年将达到450个左右。The demand for passenger transport in China will account for one-fourth of the world's total and exceed that of the United States by 2035, making China the largest air passenger market in the world, the guideline said.
该发展规划显示,中国的空客需求将占全球的四分之一,到2035年还将超越美国,使中国成为全球最大的航空客运市场。
It also said world-class airports will be built in the Yangtze River Delta region, in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area and in the Chongqing and Chengdu city cluster.
规划中还指出,将在长江三角洲地区、京津冀地区、粤港澳大湾区以及重庆和成都城市群建设世界级机场。"Service has improved substantially, but existing airports are far from adequate and are unevenly distributed throughout the country," said Dong Faxin, director of the administration's development and planning department.
中国民用航空局发展计划司司长董法鑫表示:“服务有了很大改善,但现有机场远远不够,而且在全国各地分布不均。”In 2017, China's airports handled 552 million trips, and the number is expected to increase to 720 million by 2020, the administration said.
中国民航总局称,2017年中国机场的旅客运输量达到了5.52亿人次,预计到2020年,这一数字将增至7.2亿人次。