Beiing completes its £9 billion mega airport billed as 'the Golden Phoenix' with the world's largest terminal building the size of 144 football pitches

北京耗资90亿英镑修建的大型机场“金凤凰”已完工，面积足有144个足球场大小，是世界最大航站楼

China has completed its new mega airport in Beiing after four years of construction, three months ahead of its planned grand opening.  

Measuring at 1.03 million square meters - about the size of 144 football pitches - the Beiing Daxng International Airport will be the world's largest airport terminal, according to inhua News.

Main building work officially ended on schedule yesterday as the eye-catching £9 billion facility enters into final preparations for its inauguration on September 30.

The airport, resembling a massive shining starfish, was billed as 'The Golden Phoenix' and designed by late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.

Inside, it stands out for its flowing, curved lines and use of light that filters down to the lowest levels of the building through openings in the roof.

Underneath the terminal is a train station and metro line that will allow travellers to reach the city centre in 20 minutes. 

Located 46 kilometres south of T square, the new airport will operate at full capacity in 2025, with four runways and the potential to receive 72 million passengers per year. 

经过4年的建设，北京恢弘的新机场终于完工，比计划提前了3个月。

据新华社报道，北京大兴国际机场占地103万平方米，约144个足球场大小，将成为世界上最大的机场航站楼。

这座耗资90亿英镑的机场正在为9月30日的落成典礼做最后的准备工作，主要建筑工程昨天正式竣工。

这座机场看起来像一只巨大闪亮的海星，被誉为“金凤凰”，由已故英国伊拉克建筑师扎哈·哈迪德设计。

航站楼内部以流动、弯曲的线条和透过屋顶的开口向下渗透到建筑最低层的光线而吸引人们的眼球。

候机楼下面是一个火车站和地铁线，旅客可以在20分钟左右到达市中心。

新机场位于门广场以南46公里处，将于2025年满负荷运行，拥有四条跑道，每年有望接待7200万人次乘客。

Last week, authorities unveiled the hub's main air traffic control tower. The 20-storey structure, designed to resemble the shape of a feather from a phoenix, took workers two years to build. 

The tower is equipped with a state-of-the-art guiding system which could automatically identify potential collisions between aircraft on the aprons and runways, according to Northern China Air Traffic Control Bureau. 

The system will then alert airport workers of the danger, plan alternative routes for the planes and turn on ground lights to help pilots navigate the aircraft.

By 2040 the hub is expected to have expanded to eight runways including one for military use, and will be able to welcome 100 million passengers per year - which will make it the world's largest single terminal in terms of traveller capacity, according to its designers.

Atlanta airport, in the United States, can currently receive more than a hundred million passengers, but across two terminals.

The current Beiing Capital International Airport - the world's second largest - is already overflowing, with just over 100 million passengers annually.

上周，当局公布了该机场的主要空中交通控制塔。这座20层的建筑，被设计成凤凰羽毛的形状，工人们花了两年时间才建成。

据北方航空交通管理局称，该塔配备了最先进的导航系统，可以自动识别飞机在停机坪和跑道上可能发生的碰撞。

随后该系统将向机场工作人员发出危险警报，为飞机规划备用路线，并打开地灯，帮助飞行员导航。

到2040年，该机场预计将扩大到8条跑道，其中包括一条军用跑道，并将能够每年接待1亿人次乘客——据该枢纽的设计师说，这将使其成为全球游客吞吐量最大的单一航站楼。

美国亚特兰大机场目前可以接收超过1亿人次乘客，但其拥有两个航站楼。

目前的北京国际机场——世界第二大机场——已经人满为患，每年的旅客人数刚刚超过1亿。

Air transport is booming in China as living standards increase along with peoples' desire to travel. It will pass the US to become the world's biggest aviation market by the mid-2020s, according to the International Air Transport Association.

The country will see 1.6 billion plane journeys each year from 2037 - a billion more than in 2017, the organisation estimates.

China's capital - with its 21 million people - expects to welcome 170 million passengers in 2025, split between the two airports.

The airport, constructed with 1.6 million cubic metres of concrete and 52,000 tonnes of steel, cost 79.9 billion yuan (£9.2 billion) to build, according to People's Daily.

The airport will also be equipped with cutting-edge technologies. Facial-recognition devices and real-time baggage tracking will reportedly be used during the security and immigration screenings. 

State television channel CCTV reported that the SkyTeam alliance, which includes Delta Air France and KLM, will move over to the new airport along, along with its partner Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines.

The third largest Chinese airline, Air China, is expected to keep flying the bulk of its flights from Beiing Capital International Airport.

随着人们生活水平的提高和旅行欲望的增强，的航空运输蓬勃发展。事实上，根据国际航空运输协会的数据，到本世纪20年代中期，将超过美国，成为全球最大的航空市场。

该组织估计，从2037年起，每年将有16亿次飞机航程，比2017年多10亿次。

拥有2100万人口的首都北京预计到2025年将迎来1.7亿人次乘客，其中包括两个机场。

据《人民日报》报道，这座由160万立方米混凝土和5.2万吨钢材建成的机场耗资799亿元人民币(92亿英镑)。

机场还将配备尖端技术。据报道，安检和移民检查将使用面部识别设备和实时行李跟踪。

据中央电视台报道，天合联盟，包括达美航空公司和荷兰皇家航空公司，以及其合作伙伴东方航空公司和南方航空公司，将搬到新机场。

预计第三大航空公司国际航空公司的大部分航班将继续从北京首都国际机场起飞。

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译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/47976.html 译者：Joyceliu

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Roberbyrd, El Cajon, United States, 4 days ago

They should have called it Patrick airport

他们应该将其命名为帕特里克机场。

NietzscheOnLife, Sydney, Australia, 5 days ago

Will involve a lot of walking.

在航站楼里可有得走呢。

gavinj90, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4 days ago

Apparently it won't at all. The design means that the furthest gates are still only an 8-minute walk from the central hub.

显然不会。该设计意味着从最远的大门到中心枢纽也仅需要步行8分钟。

hundoblastr, Apoplectia, United States, 5 days ago

Will they serve dog burgers in the restaurants?

餐馆里供应狗肉汉堡吗?

gnostic........, QHCG, United Kingdom, 5 days ago

And London cannot build a runway.....

伦敦连个跑道都建不成…

douglahdrum1, washington, United States, 5 days ago

Where is the space in London? This airport is about 40 miles from Beiing.

伦敦还有空地儿吗？这个机场离北京大约40英里呢。

de Winter, Lancashire , United Kingdom, 5 days ago

Looks like an octopus.

看起来就像只章鱼。

myobja, Akron, United States, 5 days ago

It is probably poorly made like their Olympic sites which fell apart soon after the games.

它的建筑质量可能很差，就像他们的奥运场馆一样，奥运会后不久就塌了。

Dogrescuer25, Chicago, United States, 5 days ago

Doubt that. Been to China. Their infrastructure makes us look like we are so far behind. In fact many countries infrastructures makes us look like our cities are decaying. We would rather spread hate and fear mongering. Congress does nothing.

我对此很怀疑。我去过。他们的基础设施让我们相形见绌。事实上，许多国家的基础设施都衬托得我们的城市正在走向衰败一样。我们宁愿散播仇恨和恐惧。国会啥都没干。

MisterBlueSky, Tampa, United States, 5 days ago

Ponder this: The US spent the equivalent amount of money to fund 2000 of these airports, during our war against Iraq !

想想看：我们对伊拉克发动战争这么些年，美国已经耗费了相当于2000个机场的建造资金!

Blue Statement, Hudson Valley, United States, 5 days ago

We did get rid of those pesky WMDs so it was money well spent. :)

我们确实摆脱了那些讨厌的大规模杀伤性武器，所以这笔钱花得很值。

DaveSmythe, River City, United States, 5 days ago

I want to see it with planes at the gates.

我想在大门口看到飞机。

MileHigh, Denver, United States, 5 days ago

When you don't need to worry about legal challenges it makes the job easier.

当你不需要担心法律上的麻烦时，事情就变得容易多了。

twinkieLAd, brext from china help US, Hong Kong, 5 days ago

To be quite frank, the connections between their high speed rail to the mega airports and their crowd control methods and efficiency are top notch. You really need to be there to realize how fast you can get from one place to another considering how much more people are traveling there. The transfer points are set up so they can get people to board gates of both trains and planes at the rate of every 15 minutes per boarding!!! My gosh, that part was truely amazing and made me weep at just how they are advancing beyond anything known to us.. Well that is hardly a compliment. And would not want to be in such a society where their peole are forced to keep moving nonstop from place to place at such speed and combined with social 'credit' must be pretty unhappy..

坦率地说，他们的高速铁路与大型机场之间的无缝链接，以及他们的人群控制方法和效率无人能及。你真的得自己亲自去到那里才会了解到，从一个地方到另一个地方的速度能有多快，而且鉴于有那么多人口。换乘点的设立是为了让人们可以以每15分钟一次的速度登上火车和飞机的登机口!!我的天啊，那简直太神奇了，我为他们超越了我们所知的一切而激动不已。这可不是什么恭维。我不愿意生活在这样一个社会里：人们不得不以如此快的速度马不停蹄地从一个地方去往另一个地方，再加上社会的“信用”，他们一定很不快乐。

Blue Statement, Hudson Valley, United States, 5 days ago

China's public infrastructure is becoming much better than ours. We seem to be in an irreversible decline. We can't even seem to maintain what our parents and grandparents built.

的公共基础设施正慢慢变得比我们的好上许多。我们似乎正处于不可逆转的衰退之中。我们甚至无力维持我们的父母和祖父母建造的东西。

Blue Statement, Hudson Valley, United States, 5 days ago

Amish: "is becoming," not "is".

Amish：是正慢慢超过我们，不是现在已经比我们好。

gavinj90, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4 days ago

Sorry to break it to you, but it's already way ahead and that gap will only widen.

很抱歉打断你，但已经遥遥领先，而且差距只会越来越大。

Tat2ood, Here n there, United Kingdom, 5 days ago

Looks more like a golden splat than a phoenix.

看起来更像金色的水花而非凤凰。

Hurricane123, Paris, France, 5 days ago

It must be a nightmare getting from one terminal to the next. People had better check in early and have a long connecting time!

从一个终点站去到下一个终点站肯定犹如一场噩梦。人们最好早点办理登机，转机时间肯定也很长。

Camikazi, Waterbury, United States, 5 days ago

Yeah, one good turn and you could be lost and not know which way you need to go. Some airports that are mostly straight lines are nightmares to deal with this just seems not so fun.

是啊，转个弯你可能就迷路了，不知道该走哪条路。有些机场大部分都是直线设计，都像噩梦一样，这个机场看起来就更让人生无可恋了。

gavinj90, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 4 days ago

It's a single terminal.

这只是单个航站楼。

Jacque LeStrappe, Cape Canaveral, United States, 5 days ago

Like anything else made in China, it'll probably be broken out of the box and the instructions will be unreadable

就像制造的其他产品一样，很可能拆箱后就坏了，说明书也让人看不懂

Short-handed, Portland, United States, 5 days ago

Instead of being required to show-up an hour or two to check-in for their flight - it's probably gonna be days now.

可能办理登机手续不再是一两个小时的事了——现在得花上好几天的时间。

Jeanbean8, Firenze, Italy, 5 days ago

Looks like a brown starfish

看起来像一只棕色的海星。

Laurendubya, Arklatex, United States, 5 days ago

Of course they finished on time!

他们肯定会按时完成建设啦！

LoboHusker, Omaha, United States, 5 days ago

Pretty nice airport.

很漂亮的机场。

okno, Here And There , United States, 5 days ago

The guy using the paint sprayer with no mask is so China.

那个没带口罩操作喷漆机的家伙太了。

M D Johnson, Springfield, United States, 5 days ago

Good for them if they needed it. However, the reason why we don't do these projects in America is red tape! It takes decades to build runway extensions in our airports! South of Chicago, they worked for over a decade to get a third airport built in Illinois, haven't heard a thing in years about that project! You name it, just proposing a project kept alone a major one, and its gonna take a lifetime to get it done! Is that Boston tunnel finished yet?

如果他们需要这个机场，那真不错。但是，我们美国建设不了这种项目的原因是无止境的繁文缛节。我们的机场要扩建一条跑道都需要几十年的时间！芝加哥南部花了十多年的时间准备，要在伊利诺斯州建造第三个机场，但是多年来却没有听到任何关于这个项目动工的消息！随便你说个工程项目，都得花上一辈子的时间才能完工！波士顿隧道完工了吗?

M D Johnson, Springfield, United States, 5 days ago

That's yet not kept, thanks for the help again apple! What would I due without you!

再次感谢苹果的帮助！没有你该怎么办！