Guilin Liangjiang International Airport
international airport serving Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang, China
Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (IATA: KWL, ICAO: ZGKL) is an international airport serving the city of Guilin in South Central China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is located in Liangjiang Town, about 28 km (17 mi) southwest of the city center.
In 2024, Guilin Liangjiang International Airport was the 49th busiest airport in China with 5,932,075 passengers. Around 4 million passengers transit through Liangjiang Airport annually, traveling to one of the 48 domestic and international destinations served nonstop from Guilin. In 2025, the airport became the 48th busiest airport in China (up one place), with a passenger throughput of 6,504,366.
History
In September 1991, the State Council of China and the Central Military Commission approved a 1.85 billion yuan project to build a new airport to replace Guilin Qifengling Airport as Guilin's civil airport. Construction began in July 1993, and Liangjiang Airport was opened on 1 October 1996.
Liangjiang Airport now features a 3,200 meter-long runway, a 150,000 square meter large parking apron, 20 gate positions, and a 50,000 square meter large terminal building. The airport has also invested 20 million yuan into improving Liangjiang International's aesthetics and making the airport more environmentally-friendly. The airport has received several awards for their efforts.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Guilin Liangjiang International Airport” as international airport serving Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as international airport serving Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1197688. Authority coordinates are 25.218, 110.039. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 2025, 1991 and 1993.
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This entry incorporates text from “Guilin Liangjiang International Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.