China’s latest starfish-shaped airport set to boost tourism in northeast

It would be the metropolis’s first 4F-class airport — which means its large enough to accommodate the world’s largest business plane, together with A380s and Boeing 787s — making it a brand new transportation hub in Northeast Asia.

An aerial view of Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport on May 12, 2020.

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Capacity to serve 60 million passengers

The new airport will dramatically boost the province’s air site visitors capability.

Staff members stroll by the departure corridor of the terminal constructing of Jiaodong International Airport.

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Paper-thin roof, water-saving ‘sponge airport’ design

The design helps cut back strolling distances between the principle check-in corridor and the farthest gates in the 470,000-square-meter terminal to not more than 550 meters.

Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport is topped by an ultra-thin stainless-steel roof.

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Yet in contrast to Beijing Daxing Airport’s steel-and-glass roof, Qingdao’s new airport options an ultra-thin stainless-steel roof that is simply 0.5 millimeters — the thickness of a chunk of A4 paper. The roof, masking a complete space of 223,000 sq. meters, is the most important of its form in the world, in accordance to state media studies.

Another similarity between the 2 airports is an emphasis on inexperienced water therapy techniques.

Dubbed a “sponge airport,” Qingdao Jiaodong has been designed to take up and retailer extra rainwater that may be recycled and reused when wanted.

High-speed rail and subway traces will join Qingdao to the brand new airport, with officers saying it’ll take about an hour to journey from town heart to the brand new hub.