Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is an important southwest aviation hinge and distribution center of passengers and cargos. Established in Oct. 1987, it was approved as the international airport by the state in 1993 and was granted with ground visa right in 2000. At present, it is responsible for governing Nanchong Airport, Dazhou Airport and Xichang Airport in Sichuan Province. It is also the base airport of Southwest Division of China International Airline and Sichuan Airlines.

Its flight area is Class 4E. The main runway is 3,600m in length and 60m in width. The parking apron covers an area of 670,000 m2 and bears 71 plane locations of various types. PCILS II is mounted on the south end of the main runway. Two departure buildings cover an area of 100,000 m2 and possess a passenger-handling capacity of 12,000,000 person-times for the whole year. The departure building which start operation on Oct. 2001 is incorporated with three-parallel-porch design. The passengers of departure and arrival were separated. The domestic passengers were also separated from foreign passengers. It is also equipped with departure system and automatic building control system. The airport stated to built the international departure building of 39,000 m2 in 2003 and it is estimated to be completed at the end of 2004.

Over recent years, the airport is among the top six places in various production indexes. The passenger-handling capacity reached 8,190,000 person-times in 2003. Over 20 domestic and foreign airline companies opened more than 70 domestic courses, 6 international courses and more than 20 international charter flight courses. It also has the scheduled flights to Katmandu (Nepal) via Lhasa, to Paris (France) and Fukuoka (Japan) via Shanghai. There are over 270 sorties of departure and arrival each day.

The airport passed ISO9002:1994 and ISO9001:2000 in 1998 and 2002 respectively. It also received Certificate of Quality System Attestation of ISO9002:1994 and ISO9001:2000 issued by American National Standardization Certification Committee. At present, the airport has established the quality ensurence system matching the international standard in respect of security management, passenger service and scheduled flight guarantee. It has kept the record of zero safety misadventure for 16 years successively.

At present, the airport is carrying out the overall planning design on aviation materials flow and independent operation of two runways. These efforts will contribute to lay a solid foundation for the aim becoming one of the six major regional hinge airport in China.