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Wuxi Shuofang Airport

airport

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1433255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wuxi Shuofang Airport (called Wuxi Suzhou Airport from 17 March 2023) (IATA: WUX, ICAO: ZSWX) is an airport in the city of Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.

The Airport is the second largest airport in Jiangsu Province (after Nanjing Lukou International Airport) and the only profitable airport among the nine airports in Jiangsu Province outside Nanjing Airport. The airport covers an area of 3.24 square kilometers, currently has two terminals, 23 boarding gates (T1 Terminal 1-12, T2 Terminal 13-23), 26 parking stands (currently under construction), a 3,200-meter-long runway with 50-meter width, and an airport flight area grade of 4E.

In May 2023, the airport cargo hub station and part of the supporting second runway taxiway project officially started, which also marked the official start of the airport expansion.

History

The airport was built in 1955 for military use, and commercial flights only started in 2004 less than 2 years after the nearby Suzhou Guangfu Airport closed traffic to commercial flights.

In May 2023, the airport cargo hub station building and part of the supporting second runway taxiway project officially started, which also marked the official start of the airport expansion.

As of December 14, 2024, the airport served 10 million passengers annually for the first time, making it the second airport in Jiangsu Province with the annual passenger traffic of more than 10 million. The general revision plan of the airport, which includes the construction of a new second runway, the extension of the first runway, the construction of a new Terminal 3, and a comprehensive transportation hub, has been approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

The airport has one runway designated 03/21 which measures 3,200 by 50 metres (10,499 ft × 164 ft).

In the future, Wuxi Shuofang Airport will have two runways and three terminals, T1, T2 and T3. By 2035, it will need to meet the passenger throughput of 21.5 million and cargo throughput of 650,000 tons.

Editorial summary

“Wuxi Shuofang Airport” enters the record as airport. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wuxi, Shuofang and Airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 1955, 2004, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wuxi, Shuofang and Airport.
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Why this record matters

“Wuxi Shuofang Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wuxi, Shuofang and Airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1433255. The first chronological checks are 2023, 1955, 2004 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wuxi Shuofang 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.