Greater Bay Area world-class city cluster "up-scale" Guangzhou new airport project officially started.

On the morning of March 25th, with the roar of machines and excavation of earth, construction of the new airport in Guangzhou began in Foshan. This marks the start of building a modern international aviation hub that will serve the west bank of the Pearl River, radiate to western Guangdong, and empower the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. According to reporters on site, the new airport is a 4E level international airport with a planned land area of 27 square kilometers, progressing in phases: the current phase will have a standard construction for an annual passenger throughput of 30 million people and a cargo throughput of 500,000 tons, comparable in scale to provincial capital airports such as Tianhe in Wuhan and Huanghua in Changsha; the long-term plan includes an annual throughput of 80 million passengers and 2.6 million tons of cargo, equivalent to the current Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou, with space reserved for upgrading to a 4F level airport. In this phase, a T1 terminal building with an area of 260,000 square meters and a total of 94 parking spaces, as well as two parallel runways, one in the west and one in the east, each with a length of 3,600 meters, will be constructed.