CONFIDENTIAL
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Shenzhen Airport
CRC INF 4/86
Rgineering Develyout Dept (HKG)
In early December 1985, EDD hosted a visit by Chinese officials and their American consultants to the
Chek Lap Kok test embankment on Lantau. The officials were members of Aviation Consulting Engineers of China, a subsidiary of CAAC. During the visit, the following information emerged which may be of interest to members
of the CRC:
(a) the engineers and the consultants aim to complete a final feasibility study for Shenzhen airport in mid-February 1986 and present it in Peking.
(b)
(c)
the site selected is Huang Tian () and will be located close to the proposed Shenzhen-Guangzhou highway which will in fact require a minor realign- ment to make way for the airport. The airport is intended to be of a domestic nature, at least during the initial years of operation. Land
acquisition is scheduled to commence in 1986, and the project to be completed in 1990 with a 2400 m runway and 440 ha airport land with supporting facilities for the projected 1995 demand. The forecast traffic volume is around 1 million passengers per annum for the first 5 years of operation. (Present air passenger volume at the three busiest airports of China in Canton, Shanghai and Peking is approximately 3, 1 and 1 million respectively.)
The Chinese estimate that the single runway at Kai Tak will be saturated by 1993 and by then the spill- over air traffic could be taken over by Shenzhen airport which should be extended to 3400 m by 1995 to satisfy requirements up to 2005. The airport
would then serve as a second airport after Kai Tak
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