Yangzhou Taizhou Airport
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Yangzhou Taizhou Airport is an airport currently under construction in Jiangdu
, Jiangsu Province, China
, scheduled to be completed in late 2011 and opened to flights in March 2012. The airport is located 30 kilometers from Yangzhou
and 20 kilometers from Taizhou
, and is jointly constructed by the two cities. Another major city, Zhenjiang
, is also nearby across the Yangtze River
. It was formerly called Suzhong Jiangdu Airport (Suzhong means "Central Jiangsu"), but was renamed in November 2011 to reflect the names of the main cities it serves.
Jiangdu
Jiangdu is a county-level city in Jiangsu Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yangzhou. Jiangdu is the location of Yangzhou Taizhou Airport that is currently under construction and will serve Yangzhou and Taizhou when open in 2012.-References:*...
, Jiangsu Province, China
China
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, scheduled to be completed in late 2011 and opened to flights in March 2012. The airport is located 30 kilometers from Yangzhou
Yangzhou
Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across...
and 20 kilometers from Taizhou
Taizhou, Jiangsu
Taizhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu province of eastern China. Situated on the north bank of the Yangtze River, it borders Nantong to the east, Yancheng to the north and Yangzhou to the west....
, and is jointly constructed by the two cities. Another major city, Zhenjiang
Zhenjiang
Zhenjiang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Jiangsu province in the eastern People's Republic of China . Sitting on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Changzhou to the east, and Yangzhou across the river to the north.Once...
, is also nearby across the Yangtze River
Yangtze River
The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...
. It was formerly called Suzhong Jiangdu Airport (Suzhong means "Central Jiangsu"), but was renamed in November 2011 to reflect the names of the main cities it serves.