Being an important trunk line airport of China, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport is a key airport for tourism city and scheduled international flights. It also serves as a major alternate landing airport for Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Located at the south bank of Qiantang River, the airport is 27 kilometers away from the downtown area of Hangzhou. The construction of airport has been conducted in three phases, namely the near-phase, metaphase and long-phase under the principle of Planning at One Time, Construction in Several Phases. The airport project was initiated formally in July, 1997 and the newly-completed airport underwent the initial flight operation on December 30, 2000. In September 2003, the State Council approved expanding the opening of Hangzhou air port to foreign airplanes. In March, 2004, the Hangzhou air port starts the official expansion of its opening to foreign airplanes after passing the state inspection.

The first phase of the airport project covers an area of over 7260 mu. Project in this phase has been constructed aiming to handle the taking off and landing of B747-400 airplanes, 8 million passengers and 110,000 tons of cargo annually. The airside grade index is 4E, with a 3600-meter long and 45-meter wide runway. The terminal building, covering a construction area of 100,000 square meters ( including an underground parking lot with an area of 22,000 square meters), is designed and constructed to handle 3600 passengers per hour at the rush hour with entry and exit ensured to be smooth and convenient. There are 36 ticket counters in the terminal, among which 12 are for international flights. Besides, 12 major light current systems including flight dynamic display system and departure system are set up in the building, whose overall functions and technologies rank among the best domestically. The terminal equipped with facilities able to provide all-around services, has not only 2900 seats but also VIP lobbies and several lounges for firs-class cabins. And the international joint inspection hall in the terminal building of 9500 square meters possesses complete port supporting facilities including frontier defense, customs, inspection and quarantine, foreign currency exchange and duty-free shops. The 340,000 square meter station site is equipped with 12 aerobridges, 18 remote parking bays as well as plane docking guidance systems and hexagon aviation fuelling pipeline system. The aircraft maintenance is able to deal with the second-type repair of all types of planes and the third-type of repair of Boeing 737 and 757. Fire prevention and rescue facilities are also installed at the 9th level. The airport has complete all-around supporting facilities such as electricity supply facilities, water supply facilities, energy-saving facilities and other environment-friendly facilities with all equipment, vehicles and operation procedures of leading domestic or international levels. The beautiful sceneries of the airport with the greening rate as high as 40% makes itself a garden-like airport distinguished by green, beauty, uniqueness and elegance.

With the acceleration of the economic integration and the furthering of opening-up in the Yangtze River Delta and the forming of coordination mechanism of various parties, a platform boosting of international capitals, technologies and talents in the city cluster of Yangtze River Delta is gradually coming into being, and a Golden Industrial Band around the Hangzhou Harbor under planning is also on its way, which will bring huge development opportunities for the air transport market there.

Endowed with good locations and strong development potential, the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport imposes a particular attraction and gathering force for all air passengers and cargos. The Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport makes every effort to seize the opportunities to develop itself. The accomplishment of modern comprehensive communication network and logistic networks in the Yangtze River Delta also provides positive preconditions for the future development of the Xiaoshan International Airport. Presently, directly connected to the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo expressway and the Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou expressway, accessible to the Zhajiasu expressway and the Sujiahang expressway, the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport enjoys convenient and smooth communications leading to all ways, costing you 1.5 hours to Suzhou, 2 hours to Wuxi, 2.5 hours to Shanghai and 3.5 hours to Wenzhou. With the construction of a series of items such as Shanghai-Hangzhou inter-city rapid railway communication, Hangzhou- Pudong, Shanghai Expressway, Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway double line, Shanghai-Jiaxing-Huzhou (Hangzhou) Expressway and the expansion of Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, the One-city Effect between Shanghai and Hangzhou will take place and the 2-hour Communication Circle in the Yangtze River Delta will also appear soon, making Hangzhou a comprehensive logistics center at the south of the Yangtze River Delta. Faced up with both opportunities and challenges, the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, under the concern and support of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, Zhejiang provincial government and the aviation department, will seize the time to further opening-up and development and attach great importance to developing international air transport (especially the international cargo transport), with an effort to build itself into an international first-class modern air hub through actively carrying out the International Year activity. Laying great emphasis on the construction and development of the air hub of Hangzhou, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Zhejiang government have not only contributed important instructions many times but conducted inspections, investigations as well as directions at the airport. Under the direct instruction and leadership of Zhejiang Port Administration Office, with the help of joint inspection units such as the frontier defense, the customs and the inspection & quarantine at the airport in the breakthrough work, the work efficiency and service quality of port administration have been improved a great deal.