Beijing Daxing International Airport, located in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster, is driving the development of the region. Known as the new gateway of China, it has become an important tool for the country to focus on the future development of world-class urban areas. Director of the Development and Reform Department at the Management Committee of the airport economic zone in Daxing district said the airport’s average daily passenger throughput has exceeded 100,000. The yearly cargo and mail throughput of the airport is expected to reach 4 million metric tons in the next few years. The economic zone of Daxing airport, with an overall area of about 1,028 square kilometers and a core area of about 150 sq km, is the only area in the country in which the policies of two free trade zones are implemented. The Daxing (Beijing) part is 50 sq km, and the Hebei Langfang part is about 100 sq km. The Daxing area is divided into the eastern area of 24 sq km, with a comprehensive bonded area, an international aviation community, convention and exhibition center, consumption hub, international school and a central ecological park.
The western area is 26 sq km, with services such as healthcare, an international talent community, science and technology innovation zone and hospital. The airport one focusses on the life and health industries, high-end services, aviation security, new-generation information technologies and advanced equipment. Four major areas are planned: a comprehensive bonded area, a smart logistics area, an international aviation community, and an international life and health community. There will be six major industrial parks, including the International Aviation Headquarters Park, the Biomedical Incubator, and the International Business Complex. Innovative incubation projects such as Aige Stem Cell, Shanghai Cell, and Sino Valley have already established themselves in the zone’s Innovation Center. Aviation industry projects include the Civil Aviation Airworthiness Certification Center.
Within the area of about 100 sq km in Langfang, more than half of the area is used for overall management and control of the natural environment such as rivers, corridors, forests and farmland. The goal is to make the Langfang area a model of green and high-quality growth in Hebei, a large platform for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and a world-class aviation city. From 2019 to 2035, the Langfang part of the Daxing airport economic zone will build 902 construction and public service facilities, with a total investment of about CNY95 billion.
A competition to collect ideas for the International Convention and Exhibition and Consumption Hub in the Beijing Daxing International Airport Economic Zone has been launched. Wang Youguo, Party Secretary of Daxing district, said investing in Daxing means investing in the future of China and the world. The airport economic zone is an innovative hub helping the city to cooperate with other regions worldwide and become a new impetus for national development. The zone will combine air and railway transportation and help to showcase Chinese culture to people from different countries and regions. It will feature innovation in the airport economy and thus aid industrial development in the economic zone. The zone will explore a comprehensive development mode integrating a convention and exhibition center, a consumption hub and a park, the China Daily reports.
“Building an international consumption center is an important task in introducing well-known market players and creating a strong environment for shopping and consumption. We are building Daxing into an important consumption highland in the southern part of Beijing,” said Cai Xiaojun, Deputy Director of Daxing district. “The growth rate of service consumption in Beijing in the past 10 years has always been faster than that of commodity consumption. Online consumption has continued to accelerate. The airport economic zones should explore new consumption trends and create tailored scenarios for customers to better meet needs,” he said.
