Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX)

[Randy W]

from the SCMP on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/283369503248972/

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planning for 2035

 Xiongan, about a two-hour drive from central Beijing, is a site in Hebei
 province that was hand picked by Chinese President Xi Jinping to be
 developed into the nation's new 'dream city

 

[Randy W]

 . . . and this little blurb just came up on CGTN (this article is from CNN on the same subject)

China's first airport shuts its doors in Beijing after 109 years
Ben Westcott and Nanlin Fang, CNN • Updated 1st October 2019

Wang Xiang and his young daughter pose in front of a sign commemorating the closure of Beijing's Nanyuan Airport on September 29.
 

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As Beijing's new, multibillion-dollar airport opened with great fanfare last Wednesday, a piece of China's history quietly closed its doors on the other side of the city.
The country's very first airport, Nanyuan Airport, shut its doors for good on September 25, the same date that Beijing's new $11.5 billion Daxing Airport was opened by President Xi Jinping.

The last flight, China United Airlines KN5830, left at just after 10 p.m., state media said. By Saturday, its doors were firmly shut and the car park mostly deserted.
The few remaining dusty cars had a polite notice taped to their side window. "Hello! This airport has officially moved to Daxing International Airport on September 25 ... I want to thank you again for putting your trust in Nanyuan Airport," said the notice.

Nanyuan first opened in 1910, 109 years ago, when China was still ruled by the Qing Dynasty. It has seen two world wars, China's civil war and finally the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

 

 

[Randy W]

Chinese President Xi Jinping signals fresh drive to move state institutions out of Beijing

• During a tour of Xiongan New Area, the Chinese leader calls for greater efforts to move government, academic and financial headquarters out of the capital
• Xi is accompanied by a number of senior officials in a probable sign that the relocation process will be speeded up

from the SCMP

President Xi Jinping described the growth of the Xiongan New Area as a “miracle” during his visit. Photo: Xinhua

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The plan has been viewed with suspicion by some observers as the landlocked area is not close to any regional commercial hubs and there are few incentives for people to move there.

But during Wednesday’s tour, Xi hailed the decision to build this new district as “completely correct”, and praised the progress of the project as “solid and effective”.

“It is a miracle seeing the sophisticated modern city rising from the ground, considering these were achieved under challenging conditions as the world is undergoing major changes not seen in a century and the Covid-19 epidemic over the past three years. That is not easy,” Xi said, according to state news agency Xinhua.

Xi said the development of Xiongan was “a plan of a thousand years” and ordered officials to make a sustained effort to push it forward.

As sign of his determination to advance the project, Xi brought some of the country’s most senior figures with him, including three members of the Politburo Standing Committee – Premier Li Qiang, director of the General Office of the Communist Party’s Central Committee Cai Qi, and first Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang.