In pics: Beijing's new airport starts to take shape

Beijing's new airport in Daxing District is located 46 kilometers south of the city center. With four runways and a terminal covering 700,000 square meters, the airport is designed to reach an annual capacity of 72 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo by 2025, and to eventually handle as many as 100 million passengers each year. [Photo by Gao Zhan/China SCIO]