Passenger and Cargo Throughput of Civil Aviation Growing Steadily in East China

Fresh statistics show that passenger and cargo throughput of civil aviation steadily grew in East China, with a year-to-year growth rate of 4.4%, despite effects of the global financial crisis and various natural disasters.
All units of eastern Chinese civil aviation achieved the fifteenth transport aviation safety year in 2008; at the same time, all units of East China civil aviation overcame the difficulties of large snow disasters in the beginning of the year, fully supported earthquake relief tasks, protected the Beijing Olympic Games, and other major tasks, while still maintaining total passenger throughput of 122,791,900 people (including connecting travellers), cargo & mail throughput of 4,119,200 tons with a year-on-year growth rate of 4.4%. Shanghai Pudong Airport, Hongqiao Airport, and Hangzhou Airport boast hundreds of millions of people, of which there are two Shanghai airports with completed passenger throughput of 51,188,100 people and cargo & mail throughput of 3,047,300 tons; Hangzhou Airport had completed passenger throughput of 12,674,200 people and cargo & mail throughput of 210,800 tons.