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Beijing Capital International Airport, (simplified Chinese: 北京首都国际机场; traditional Chinese: 北京首都國際機場; pinyin: Běijīng Shǒudū Guójì Jīchǎng) (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the main international airport that serves the capital city of Beijing, People's Republic of China. The IATA Airport Code is PEK, reflecting Beijing's former Romanization Peking. The code BJS is also frequently used, reflecting the current pinyin spelling of Beijing and including all airports in the Beijing metropolitan area; currently, Beijing Capital (PEK) is the only civil aviation airport that falls under BJS. The airport is located 20 km to the northeast of Beijing city center. Although many consider it to lie in Shunyi District, it is, in fact, an exclave of Chaoyang District, Beijing. The airport is a primary hub of operations for Air China, which flies to around 120 destinations (excluding cargo). It is also a hub for Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines. The airport expansion is largely funded by a 500-million-euro (USD 625 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan is the largest ever granted by the EIB in Asia; the agreement was signed during the eighth China-EU Summit held in September 2005.[citation needed] Beijing Capital is today the busiest airport in the People's Republic of China, having registered double-digit growth annually since the SARS crisis of 2003. In 2004, it became the busiest airport in Asia by aircraft movements, overtaking Tokyo International Airport (Haneda). In terms of passengers, Beijing was the second-busiest airport in Asia after Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) and ninth-busiest worldwide in 2006. In 2007, it served 53,736,923 passengers and had 399,986 aircraft movements.[1] It was the 23rd busiest airport in terms of traffic movements. It is also the 20th busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic, having moved 1,028,908 million tonnes of cargo in 2006. It operates around 1100 flights a day, and is expected to rise to 1500-1600 at the Olympics in 2008. [2]
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China Can't even build their airport by themselves
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am so surprise to see this type of airport in my life time
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assholes pulled down hundreds historical buildings
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Heathrow is bigger...
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Good Airport
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I've been to the airport last year. Took a train from A to B. Apparently in the middle area between A and B, they are making another expansion there too. Like it wasn't big enough already.
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too bad, no vagina ever land on your airport
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Hmm... is that why you are in a "cockpit"?
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I've watched discovery, history, nat geo, etc channels for years and years. Why have I never seen this show, along with several others. Did it air in another country or something??
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I've just been to terminal 3 a few days ago, it was amazing. No camera could come close to taping the glory of the dragon.
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totally agreed.
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you need to literally take trains within the airport
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indian
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Do I want a more democratic China of course. But China can build 32 airports in 4 years , while some countries (Canada) is still debating a subway extension for over 5 years . So I think there are some legitimacy for a communist party at the moment . Its a matter of weighting the advantages and disadvantages. There will be a democratic China , its just a matter of time.
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These water are public, you can not block it! Resources? You know Tibetans are granting with privileges in higher education in China and in employment. They will only need to score 300 to get into a top tier school like Beijing University while other Chinese have to get 630 and over. China, with largest foreign reserves , is building things everywhere, we do not need a crappy one in Tibet. you are talking about human rights? Dear , bread and butter is the most basic human rights!
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They should apply designs in their own country there..... but yet so much red tape here...... at least in china, goverment approve most stuff
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I <3 beijing..cant wait to get back....
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I am a chinese citizen and I am totally fine with poor regions like taiwan and tibet free from China's control , don't follow us , yuk!