Jiaxing Airport is Accelerating Its Pace to be the Third Airport of Shanghai
By Maggie, China Aviation Daily | Aug. 03, 2017
Conference on Accelerating the Construction of the Demonstration Zone for Jiaxing Comprehensive Integration with Shanghai was held on July 28. Associated officials, business owners and experts from Zhejiang Province and Shanghai attended this conference. More than 30 collaboration agreements on park platform, technologies and talents, and policies benefiting residents were reached.
Jiaxing is located between Shanghai and Hangzhou, which is a great advantage for Jiaxing. Jiaxing takes measures on multiple areas such as transportation, medical treatment, education and industrial platform to integrate with Shanghai.
On transportation, from December of last year, residents could take underground, bus and ferry in Shanghai with Jiaxing citizen card and new bus card. Shanghai residents could take bus in Jiaxing with Shanghai bus card. Furthermore, Jiaxing would finish making rail transportation integration scheme between Shanghai and Jiaxing to strive for the approval of Shanghai - Zhapu - Hangzhou railway project's feasibility.
In addition, the project of Strengthen Cooperation between Jiaxing Civil and Military Airport and Shanghai Airport Authority was listed as a key project in the development of demonstration zone in 2017, which aims at building Jiaxing Airport to a functional supporting airport for Shanghai, an air transport hub. The review for the feasibility report of this project is expected to be finished by the year end and the plan of the second runway's construction has been approved principally.