After 14 set out the construction of Yunnan new aviation dreams, ready for takeoff

Yesterday, the long water Kunming International Airport is the first to leave scratches of the aircraft. Yunnan in order to cast the new aviation dream, after 14 years.
Long water Kunming International Airport construction project preparatory work was officially launched in 1998, officially founded February 11, 2007. In the meantime, has been carried out to Kunming new airport site optimization program review report by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and an important part of the State Council and Central Military Commission approved the project.
In the construction time, the long water Kunming International Airport has experienced three important building of the year 2009 the civil, the 2010 installation and debugging year of 2011.
Civil year: the earthwork project more than the Three Gorges
August 26, 2008, Kunming new airport project feasibility study report by the National Development and Reform Commission officially approved. Kunming's new airport project total investment of 23.087 billion yuan, the airport project investment of 18.48 billion yuan; new terminal building construction area of ​​548,300 square meters. Station site parking bays 84, terminal before the viaduct construction area of ​​73,000 square meters, a parking building of 98,000 m2, 62,000 m2 of surface parking lots.
Kunming New Airport Construction to co-ordinate the planning and construction phases, and rolling development principle, short-term goal is to 2020, to achieve passenger, cargo and mail throughput of 38 million passengers, 950,000 tons; the mid-2030, passenger, cargo and mail throughput of 58 million passengers, 1.7 million tons; forward to 2040 to achieve the passengers, cargo and mail throughput of 65 million passengers, 2.3 million tons. Engineering construction scale of the planning of the flight zone 4F standard issue 4E standard long-term planning for the four runways, terminal design capacity of 6000 to 80 million people.
The positioning of the new airport in Kunming, China for South-East Asia, South Asia and connecting Europe and Asia, the gateway to hub airports in the country during the "Eleventh Five-Year" only approve new major hub airports, Yunnan Province is the "Eleventh Five-Year" period of 20 key projects.
2009, seen when the reporter an interview in nearly 20 square kilometers of new airport construction site, digging machines, cranes and other large engineering equipment rumbling operations, the site is full of construction workers busy figure. At that time, Kunming new airport construction headquarters staff: "The land for construction of Kunming's new airport ground level of the larger gap, the largest drop of nearly 200 m take about the past 200 million cubic meters of earthwork. Kunming new airport construction has become China earthwork The project is the largest project, even more than the Three Gorges. "
Installation: Terminal resembles the Youth Pre-employment Training Big Bird "
Capped at June 5, 2010 Terminal steel truss metal roof is one of the most critical node. Terminal stone coated metal roof construction area of ​​about 150,000 square meters, with a complex process, and a wide range of operations, technical, and other characteristics, a huge area of ​​metal curtain wall project for domestic and foreign rare.
Because metal roofing is the warping of the gable roof, from the air, the whole building head high up, like the wings of Dapeng. It is quite traditional architectural charm of the Yunnan Nationalities terminal steel truss stone coated steel roof cap, and since then bears the albatross of Kunming new airport resembles a fly deep impression in people's minds.
It is worth mentioning is that the terminal roof steel truss for the pairs of surface shape from north to south direction of about 850 meters east-west width of 1120 meters, the main building basement, three floors. The roof is composed mainly by the solder balls and steel pole, steel is about 18,000 tons in the entire roof, the roof projection area of ​​180,000 square meters, is a very large network structure. The most interesting is that the roof truss support system, not a column, but by seven groups of ribbon steel, seven meaning "Colorful Yunnan" steel ribbon, as the essence and characteristics of the terminal.
With the terminal steel truss stone coated metal roofing cap, then located in Terminal within the various facilities, such as the baggage system to start the installation. The same year, held at the new airport air traffic control works started.