Fujian's Quanzhou Jinjiang Airport receives full operational approval

QUANZHOU Jinjiang Airport, located 12 kilometres south of the Quanzhou city centre in southern Fujian province, has passed the national acceptance check and received official approval for opening, reports Xinhua.

The airport was built in 1955. From 2004, Fujian has put it into the provincial 11th Five-Year Checkpoint's Opening Up Plan.

The Quanzhou municipal government has invested CNY907 million (US$145.6 million) on the airport's expansion and upgrades for a temporary opening up period, and offers air services from Quanzhou to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the Philippines.

New infrastructure at the airport checkpoint has been built, including the international passenger inspection hall, international freight centre and auxiliary projects. Total area of the international passenger inspection hall is 12,000 square metres with a planning passenger capacity of 700,000, and the international freight centre covering an area of 2,000 square metres is designed to handle 11,000 tonnes of cargo a year.