After five years of construction, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport in Southwest China's Sichuan province was put into operation on Sunday morning， making Chengdu the (three) city in China with two international hub(枢纽) airports, after Shanghai and Beijing.
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport is the (large) civil transport airport planned and constructed during the 13th Five Year Plan period (2016- 2020).
Its first- phase project witnessed construction of three runways and two terminals with a total area of 710, 000 square meters, which can meet the annual throughput of 60 million people.
According to Wu Ding, a leading official charge of the airport's construction, in the past five years, over 30 new technologies (apply) to make it reach (advance) world level.
With a total (long) of 4,000 meters and a width of 75 meters, one of its runways is the highest level 4F runway in the international aviation industry, large civil aircraft like an Airbus A380 can take off and land.
The first plane, which took off from the airport at 11:25 am, was from Sichuan Airlines. With 262 passengers, the plane for Beijing Capital International Airport had many cartoon (panda) on its fuselage(机身), (remind) people of the animal's habitat.
