China News Service, Jiaxing, October 18 (Fu Feiyang, Sheng Jiachun) At 14:47 on October 18, as Loong Airlines flight GJ8192 landed smoothly at Nanhu Airport in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, the airport's annual passenger throughput exceeded the one million mark, ranking among the million-level civil aviation airports in the country.
On October 18, passengers checked in at Jiaxing Nanhu Airport. Photo courtesy Sheng Jiachun
This breakthrough is not only an important milestone for the high-quality development of airport air passenger transport, but also a landmark achievement for Jiaxing to build a modern comprehensive transportation system and deeply integrate into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
The airport is a window to observe the economic vitality and openness of the city. Jiaxing is located in the core hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta and has the unique geographical endowment of being connected to Shanghai, Rongzhou, Hangzhou and Suzhou, Lianyong. A strong manufacturing foundation, an active private economy, a balanced and coordinated county development pattern, and close regional industrial collaboration have paved a broad and solid market base for the development of air passenger transport.
In the first half of 2026, Jiaxing's GDP increased by 6.9% year-on-year, leading Zhejiang in growth rate; the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 9.6%, and the revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size exceeded 1.6 trillion yuan, ranking sixth among prefecture-level cities in the country...
Groups of eye-catching economic data reflect the increasingly frequent business exchanges upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and the continued deepening of regional exchanges and cooperation. A large number of market entities and a prosperous private economy have continuously transformed into passenger potential in the aviation market, injecting strong endogenous power into airport operations.
High-quality urban development is inseparable from the support of an efficient and convenient modern comprehensive transportation system. In recent years, Jiaxing has insisted on large-scale transportation, large-scale transportation, and fast transportation, and its comprehensive transportation investment has exceeded 40 billion yuan for three consecutive years. The completion and opening of Jiaxing Nanhu Airport has made up for the shortcomings of local civil aviation passenger transportation, further improved the three-dimensional comprehensive transportation system of "road, rail, water and air", and also established an air channel for Jiaxing to integrate into the world-class airport cluster in the Yangtze River Delta and connect key cities across the country.
The core of converting the air travel potential contained in the city into real passenger flow growth is to promote the accurate matching and efficient connection of route network and market demand. As of October 18, Jiaxing Nanhu Airport has guaranteed a total of 7,236 passenger flight takeoffs and landings, with an average passenger load factor of 83.3% and an average of 139 passengers per aircraft.
Since its opening to aviation, Jiaxing has closely adhered to the development positioning of "emphasis on both passengers and cargo, focusing on cargo", actively responded to multiple challenges such as high aviation fuel prices, and the reshaping of passenger travel habits during the new airport's development period, and adhered to the route expansion path of quality priority and ecological synergy.
Specifically, the local area continues to deepen its collaborative cooperation with leading domestic airlines such as Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, and Shenzhen Airlines, as well as local airline Long Dragon Airlines in Zhejiang Province. Focusing on the two core demands of business and economic exchanges and convenient travel for the people, the local government has explored and constructed a differentiated aviation development path for regional airports from airline introduction, route selection, flight schedule arrangement, time optimization, and aircraft comfort.
One million passengers is not only an important milestone in the development of the airport, but also a new starting point for high-quality operations. Jiaxing Nanhu Airport seizes the key points of the seasonal change of civil aviation and actively transforms from route network laying to network structure optimization, and from incremental expansion to quality and efficiency improvement.
The new airline season is based on market travel demand and route operating efficiency, and optimizes the capacity supply, focusing on the travel characteristics of business passengers. Routes to Beijing, Chengdu, and Guangzhou have all covered morning, noon, and evening periods. Key cities such as Chongqing and Shenzhen continue to stabilize the supply of capacity. With better time arrangements and more diverse travel options, passengers continue to improve their sense of travel gain.
In addition, anchoring on the goal of building the "most convenient airport", Jiaxing Nanhu Airport adheres to the people-oriented orientation and coordinates and promotes the integrated construction of reducing the timeliness of the entire flight process, optimizing ground connections, integrating aviation, culture and tourism, and ensuring accessibility.
Among them, the airport has reduced flight time through smart security checks, self-service gates, pre-diversion, smooth passage of emergency passengers, and direct baggage check-in. It has encrypted dedicated bus lines, upgraded intelligent guidance and non-inductive payment in parking lots, and improved on-site travel facilities; it has also simultaneously improved patrols of barrier-free facilities. Inspection and special passenger service guarantees, optimize the special products of "Luggage Easy Travel" and "Air Culture Travel Passport", and open up a one-hour travel link from "home door" to "cabin door" in Jiaxing urban area by benchmarking each link to facilitate quantitative standards, and build operational quality with refined services.
