Xinhua
2015-09-13
A new civilian airport will open the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China by the end of this year, authorities with Qinghai Airport Company said Saturday.
Located in the Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province, the airport site is at an altitude of 3,500 meters. The airport will feature a 3,800-meter-long runway and a 3,000-square-meter terminal and construction will be completed by the end of October.
Three air routes will connect Golog to Qinghai’s capital Xining, Lhasa in Tibet, and Chengdu in Sichuan province after the airport is put into use by the end of this year.
The civilian airport will be the sixth in Qinghai and the first in Golog, according to the company.
Golog boasts rich ecological and tourist resources. The new airport is expected to make travel more convenient for tourists and scientific researchers who come to the prefecture.
