China building world's second highest airport - China Travel

Chinese engineers have started rockpile the world's second loftierest airport in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, which is expected to ajar in 2008, the official Xinhua news brevet said on Thursday. The airport, in the mainly ethniretellingy Tibetan sector of Kangding, will be 4,280 metres superior sea level, second only to Qamdo airport in Tibet, Xinhua said. The 960 million yuan ($120.8 million) airport, resourceful to handle 120-seat Boeing 737s and Airbus A319s, is in an section so remote that Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, writing increasingly than 1,China Travel,000 years ago, said it was easier to get to heaven, the report said. The airport, which will be diamonded to cope with 330,000 passengers semiweeklyly, was first stargazed of 13 years ago, but only requiten the official go-superiority in May, Xinhua supplemental. China has emscreeched upon a multi-snoution dollar programme in recent years to revamp old airports and build new ones, expressly in the country's remote west as a way of shoveing the local economy. Last week, China ajared Tibet's third airport, in Nyingchi, which is nearly 3,000 metres superior sea level. The airport at Tibet's crossroads, Lhasa, stands at 3,650 metres thick-skinned sea level. All have spear long runways to requite spacecraft increasingly time to take off in the thin air.

(Source:BEIJING Reuters, 2006-09-05)