<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History of Haikou Meilan International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">In 1993, the State Council and the Central Military Commission agreed to establish a project to build Meilan Airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In May 1996, the State Planning Commission approved the airport project budget, and construction started in November of the same year. Passed the national inspection and acceptance in March 1999 and qualified for sailing. On May 13 of the same year, the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued a reply for the opening of Meilan Airport, and it was officially put into operation on the 25th.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The newly built flight area of this project is located directly to the north, and parallel to the main part. It has a rating of 4F, and a new 3,600 (11,811 feet) long runway (10/28), two parallel taxiways and contact road system are built. A total investment of 14.468 billion yuan will be made in the construction of a new T2 terminal covering 296,000 square meters and various types of platforms with 59 seats. The construction target of the project is to meet the annual passenger throughput of 35 million person-times and annual freight and postal throughput of 400,000 tons by 2025.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The project was scheduled to be basically completed in December 2018. The installation and commissioning of electro-mechanical equipment was scheduled to begin in 2019 and to be put into use at the end of that year.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Transportation of Haikou Meilan International Airport</h2>
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<p class="blog-para"><strong>Highway:</strong> At present, there are national highway G223 and S82 airport connecting expressway connecting the urban area and the airport, and the provincial highway S201 to the west connects the airport with Guilinyang and the towns along the way.</p>
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<p class="blog-para"><strong>Railway:</strong> Hainan Island High-speed Rail Meilan Station is located on the basement level of the Meilan Airport terminal. From here, you can take the city area train (the train number starts with S) and the round-the-island high-speed rail intercity train (the train number starts with C) to the downtown area of Haikou. Intercity trains in some counties and cities in Hainan Province, including Sanya City.</p>
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<p class="blog-para"><strong>High-speed rail:</strong> East Loop Line: Haikou East Station-Meilan Station-Wenchang Station-Qionghai Station-Boao Station-Wanning Station-Shenzhou Station-Lingshui Station-Yalong Bay Station-Sanya Station</p>
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<p class="blog-para"><strong>City train: </strong>Meilan Station &rarr; Haikou East Station &rarr; Chengxi Station &rarr; Xiuying Station &rarr; Changliu Station &rarr; Haikou Station</p>
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<p class="blog-para"><strong>Taxi: </strong>Getting to the airport from Haikou city by taxi usually costs about RMB 60 and takes about 30 minutes.</p>
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