CHINA AIRPORTS: BUILD – BUT WILL THEY COME?
May 10th, 2014
Is the party over for China’s frenetic airport development? Hardly. There are new airports being built in Beijing and the central city of Changsha. And new airports opening in the past year included Bijie Feixiong Airport, Chizhou Jiuhuashan Airport, Gannan Xiahe Airport, Daocheng Yading Airport, Kaili Huangping Airport, and three regional airports in the Alxa region of Inner Mongolia.Some of these will almost certainly not succeed. Indeed, a good example of 'white elephant' airports can be seen at Ganzhou city in Jiangxi province, in south-east China. This ...
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