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The Jiuhua Mountain Airport construction project received 330 million yuan ($49.4 from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, according to the Department of Finance of Anhui province.
The National Development and Reform Committee provided 130 million yuan, and the other 200 million yuan came from a special fund.
With a total investment of 609 million yuan ($91 million), the Jiuhua Mountain Airport project is on the regional airport construction list of the nation’s “11th Five-Year Plan.” The airport is located near Meilong county in Chizhou city of Anhui province. Starting on August 26, 2009, builders finished the project’s first phase. They started building a 9.8-million-yuan terminal on August 27, 2010. The airport will be completed and open in October 2011.
By then, flight routes from Jiuhua Mountain to major Chinese cities and tourist spots, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xiamen, and Xi’an, will be available for passengers. Visitors will also be able fly to Korea and Japan. The airport will connect the Jiuhua Mountain scenic area to the outside world and motivate the collective development of the tourism market in the Huangshan Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain and Taiping Lake scenic regions.
By Audrey and Chen Zhilin
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