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N. China's Taiyuan to prepare standby airport for Olympics
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-09 16:14
BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi
province, will renovate its Wusu Airport to make it a standby airport for the
2008 Beijing Olympics, said a leading Shanxi provincial official.
"In cases of heavy fog making it difficult for planes to land in Beijing's
Capital Airport, they can turn to the Wusu Airport," said Zhang Baoshun,
secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Zhang, who is a deputy to the National People's Congress, said the Wusu
Airport will be upgraded to meet the standards for landing and taking off of
A380 planes.
Taiyuan has been chosen as a standby airport for Olympics because of its
different weather conditions compared with Beijing, Zhang said during the annual
NPC session in Beijing.
Beijing and Taiyuan are separated by the Taihang Mountains. A research report
shows in most cases, Taiyuan enjoys clear sky when Beijing is foggy.
Zhang said a fast-speed railway will be built between Taiyuan and
Shijiazhuang, which will join the Shijiazhuang-Beijing fast- speed railway.
It takes a passenger only three hours to travel from Taiyuan to Beijing by
this railway, said Zhang.
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