Beijing Daxing International Airport is a massive complex built on the outskirts of Beijing, China, from more than 220,000 tons of steel, with a price tag nearing 14 billion U.S. dollars, and is set for completion in September 2019. The new facility—billed as the world’s largest single-terminal airport—will be Beijing’s second international airport, and developers hope it will relieve pressure on overtaxed existing travel options. By 2025, planners say Daxing will be able to carry as many as 72 million passengers a year.
Photos: The World’s Largest Airport-Terminal Building
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Workers stand in the future landing-strip area at the construction site of the terminal for the new airport in Beijing's southern Daxing District on October 10, 2016. #
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A time-lapse view of satellite images of the new Beijing Daxing International Airport location, showing the changes from 2015, when the land was still covered by farms and villages, through 2018, as the terminal and runways were nearing completion. #
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The first airplane for inspection flies over Beijing Daxing International Airport on January 22, 2019. The airport embraced its first test flight as the plane landed steadily on the West One Runway on Tuesday. #
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