Airport New City
Airport New City was approved as a national aviation city experimental zone in Xi’an by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on May 14, 2014. Shaanxi Province, the starting point of the Silk Road Economic Belt, is the main development area of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. As the first national level airport economic zone positioned to develop aviation cities in China, multiple national development strategies are available to Airport New City.
One of the five components of Xixian New Area, Airport New City’s total planning area is 144.18 square kilometers; its construction area has reached 36 square kilometers. Airport New City focuses on building a national aviation trial plot in Xi’an and attaches great importance to becoming a traffic hub and establishing a business and trade center on the Silk Road, an international aviation service industry gathering center, an international culture creation center, and an ecological and pastoral town demonstration center.
City spirit: openness and tolerance
Development orientation:
Traffic Hub, Business and Trade Center on Silk Road
International Cultural Creation Centre
Gathering center of international aviation service industry and strategic emerging industry
Ecological and Pastoral Town Demonstration Center
Comprehensive three-dimensional traffic hub for cities of central Shaanxi Province.
Demonstration area of new-type urbanization
Development goal:
By 2020, implementation of the main function areas will have set the scale, airport economy effectiveness will be gradually appearing, and construction of major transportation will be basically completed. The positioning of the portal airport will have been further consolidated.
Key development industries:
Aviation Logistics
E-commerce settlement and distribution center
Cross border E-commence
International and Domestic Express Center
Air Freight Agency
Fresh Cold Chain
Cargo Airline
Bonded business:
Bonded Logistics Storage
Bonded commodities display, transaction and maintenance
Bonded Processing and Maintenance
Port working
Aircraft maintenance and manufacturing industry:
Aircraft final assembly and delivery
Aviation corporation and Third Party aircraft maintenance
Maintenance of aeromotor and undercarts
Aircraft parts and accessories maintenance and PMA manufacturing
Aircraft Interiors refit and manufacturing
Training of pilots and maintenance personnel
Airport strategic emerging industry:
Intelligent robot
Innovation and application of graphene in the whole industry chain
Bio-medicine Industry
New Material Application
High-end intelligent device
Headquarter of aviation enterprises:
National/regional headquarter of aviation enterprises
Administrative units and auxiliary units of civil aviation
Air-ground service enterprise
Package-tour firm
Flight training
Hotel catering
Cultural creation and high-end service industry:
Artwork display and transaction center
Bonded cultural business
Joint international art school
Aviation vocational-technical school
Tourist center
Specialized exhibition
Airport Agriculture:
Ecological Health
Urban Agriculture
Leisure & Holiday
Aviation Food