Everyone knows that Taiwan is the largest island in my country and one of the two islands provinces. The total area of is about 136,000 square kilometers. It is also the 38th largest island in the world. But do you know how many airports there are in Taiwan? Why does Taiwan, a small country, have so many airports? Don't worry, click on it, we will read on.
Taiwan Province is located on the continental shelf on the southeast coast of my country, facing Fujian across the sea. As you can see from the map, Taiwan Island is shaped like a sweet potato or sweet potato. However, it is an important hub and important strategic location for Asia-Pacific economic and trade transportation.
The mountains and hills on the island account for two-thirds of the island. So many mountains and hills but it has the most airports in the country.
Today's Taiwan Province includes Taiwan Island and other affiliated islands, including Penghu Islands , Kinmen Islands, Mazu Islands, Dongsha Islands , Nansha Islands , Taiping Island , and Zhongzhou Reef Islands and surrounding islands. Affiliated islands. On these islands, we can all find a strange phenomenon, that is, there are so many airports.
It is understood that Taiwan has built more than 40 military and civilian airports of various sizes. Airports have been built wherever there are people living. However, a large part of these airports do not have much room for development. Some even see aircraft only once every few years. There are a total of 27 existing airports.
There are currently four important international airports in Taiwan. They are Taoyuan International Airport , Taipei Songshan Airport , Kaohsiung International Airport and Qingquangang International Airport. Among them, Taoyuan Airport and Kaohsiung Airport are both civilian airports, and Songshan Hezhong Qingquangang Airport is a military-civilian airport.
Taoyuan Airport is a 4F civil airport and the largest and busiest airport in Taiwan Province. It is located in Dayuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, about 40 kilometers away from the center of Taipei, covering an area of 536,000 square kilometers. It also has two terminal buildings. Construction began in 1975 and it was officially opened to navigation in 1979. Afterwards, the second expansion began in 1992, and it began to open to navigation in 2000. It took a total of eight years and four months to build.
The expanded airport will have a total of 80 parking spaces and a cargo area of 416,000 square kilometers by 2018, and can guarantee an annual passenger throughput of 22 million passengers. In 2017, the airport can reach 167 cities in China and abroad. By 2019, Taoyuan International Airport had reached an astonishing passenger throughput of 48.6893 million, and the number of takeoffs and landings also reached 265,600.
The area construction and passenger throughput of the other three airports are not as large and busy as Taoyuan Airport, but they are also important international airports on the island.
There are a total of 17 airports in Taiwan , including the four international airports that are more familiar to everyone above, as well as the less familiar Pingtung and Hengchun Airports, etc. Many of them are military-civilian airports. Even highly confidential airports such as Hualien Airport Confidential are also used for civilian purposes. The degree of cooperation between the two is quite deep.
As mentioned above, there are 27 existing airports, including 14 air force bases in addition to military-civilian shared airports. Among them, the larger ones include Hualien, Taitung, Hsinchu , and the Qingquangang base mentioned above.
Among them, the airport in the Penghu Islands area is the most famous, and it is where my grandmother sang about Penghu Bay.
There are three airports on the island, namely Penghu Magong Airport, Qimei Airport and Wangan Airport. And Magong Airport is the backbone of its front-line air force base, which we will talk about below.
The airport layout is configured in three lines, interlocking
Of course, we only gave examples of the above airports, and the overall layout of Taiwan's airports is and is configured in three lines . The first line is the Penghu area just mentioned. Magong Airport is the largest airport on the Penghu Islands. It has been renamed Magong Airport and is also a military-civilian airport.
It has a construction area of about 44,000 square meters and a runway 3,000 long (45m wide). Various types of large passenger aircraft and jet fighters can take off and land. It can accommodate up to 100 fighter jets at a time. However, Magong Airport is now mainly used for passenger and cargo transportation. It is also worth mentioning that although Penghu Island has beautiful scenery, air crashes occur very frequently. There have been more than ten air crashes in the past fifty years.
After talking about the first line, let’s talk about the second line layout configuration . The second line is mainly on the western coast of Taiwan, that is, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Qingquangang and other air force bases. The third line is mainly based in Hualien, Jiashan and Shizishan in the eastern region. The location of the third line is closely connected to . The first-line Magong Base and the third-line Hualien Base are only about 200 kilometers apart. In addition, the number of air force aircraft in Taiwan Province only accounts for one-third of the military airport , and the airport's capacity is far from saturated.
Speaking of this, many people will ask, why do we need to build so many airports?
Everyone must know the reasons for the layout configuration mentioned above. The other half is related to its geographical location and its economy and trade. Although Taiwan is the largest island in my country and a treasure island known as one of the Four Asian Tigers, it is actually a relatively large isolated island. And it is also mentioned at the beginning, it is an important hub for Asia-Pacific economic and trade transportation, and it is also a strategic location. The economy and tourism are both developed. With its development and technological advancement, it is far from enough to maintain the growing trade by relying solely on maritime transportation.
For the above reasons, Taiwan has so many and dense airports. Even with so many airports and bases, they are an inseparable part of China. Taiwan Province of China, no one can isolate it from.
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