Beijing Daxing International Airport is a planned new airport serving Beijing

Beijing

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, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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The airport is to be built in Daxing, a rural area about 50km south west of Beijing city centre.

The new airport is expected to serve Tianjin

Tianjin

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 and Hebei

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 province as well as Beijing.

The airport is planned to be able to handle 120 to 200 million passengers a year making it the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic

World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic

The following is a list of the world's busiest airports by international passenger traffic.London Heathrow has been the busiest since 2000-2010 year-to-date statistics:Airports Council International's year-to-date figures are as follows....

 surpassing London Heathrow Airport

London Heathrow Airport

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. Early media reports suggested that there could be up to 9 runways: 8 runways for civil aviation plus one runway dedicated to military usage.

The programmed completion date for the new airport is October 2017.

A new high speed rail service is planned which will connect the airport to central Beijing with a journey time of 30 minutes.