This Day, That Year

Item from Aug 17, 1999, in China Daily: China's largest airport expansion project, the new terminal building (T2) in Beijing, is designed to handle 35 million passengers by the year 2005, and allow 190,000 flights to arrive and depart from the airport annually.

Thanks to the country's rapid economic development over the past few decades, the number of inbound and outbound travelers has soared.

Beijing and Shanghai remain popular destinations, with the airports in the two cities ranked among the world's busiest.