As the Spring Festival approaches, an airport in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, has rolled out a series of measures to meet surging passenger demand during the travel rush period.
These new measures include launching new routes, resuming suspended flights, increasing frequency on key routes, expanding services to popular destinations, and deploying larger aircraft models.
The 40-day travel season this year began on Feb 2 and will last until March 13. Each year during the period, millions of people working, studying or living away from their hometowns return for the Spring Festival, China's most important traditional holiday, forming the world's largest annual human migration.
During the busy travel season, Taiyuan Wusu International Airport will add 18 new routes and resume 12 others, with plans to operate a total of 12,000 flights and handle 1.75 million passengers. It will significantly increase flights between Taiyuan and major hub cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and other key cities for returning travelers.
With passenger numbers rising during the travel rush, the airport will also identify first-time flyers and passengers in need of urgent assistance, providing them with special wristbands to offer priority services throughout check-in, baggage drop, security screening, and boarding.
"International and regional routes have become a new highlight of this year's Spring Festival travel season. The airport launched direct flights from Taiyuan to Bangkok, Phuket, Nha Trang, and Macao, significantly improving travel efficiency. Together with existing routes to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur, an air corridor covering Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia has been established," said Hao Juwei, a staff member at the airport.
Taiyuan airport enhances transport capacity for Spring Festival travel rush
China's domestically developed T1200-grade ultra-high-strength carbon fiber holds broad application prospects in strategic emerging industries, according to its developer.
The country on Wednesday unveiled SYT80, a domestically developed T1200-grade ultra-high-strength carbon fiber, marking a major breakthrough in the China's high-performance carbon fiber technology.
This new material has achieved a hundred-tonne-level annual production capacity, making China the first nation to mass-produce this caliber of fiber, according to its developer, China National Building Material Group Co., Ltd. (CNBM).
Featuring lightweight and high-strength properties, the fiber's diameter is less than one-tenth that of a human hair, and yet its tensile strength is 10 times that of ordinary steel and its density is only one-quarter of steel's.
"Compared with the previous-generation T1100, T1200 has seen its tensile strength increase by more than 14 percent. With its ultimate lightweight and high-strength characteristics, T1200 can achieve weight reduction of over 10 percent for equipment in related fields. It holds broad application prospects in strategic emerging industries such as commercial aerospace, low-altitude economy, and humanoid robots," said Chen Qiufei, head of T1200 ultra-high-strength carbon fiber research and development at Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Company, a subsidiary of China National Building Material Group.
The new material also possesses many other outstanding properties.
As the fiber undergoes carbonization at nearly 2,000 degrees Celsius during production, its chemical properties remain stable and its corrosion resistance is excellent.
This fiber material also features strong fire and flame retardant properties, offering good safety performance.
The development of this fiber material demonstrates China's fully independent and controllable capabilities across the entire industrial chain of high-performance carbon fiber, spanning technologies and equipment as well as the transition from laboratory research to mass production, said Zhou Yuxian, chairman of CNBM.
China's high-strength carbon fiber shows strong potential in strategic emerging industries
