Taiyuan Wusu International Airport
Taiyuan · China · Asia/Shanghai
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Airport HistoryEst. 1939
Wusu Airport was built in 1939 as a joint military-civilian airfield during the Japanese occupation of Shanxi province, later passing to Nationalist and then Communist Chinese control after WWII and the Chinese Civil War. Rebuilt for modern civil aviation from the 1990s onward, it has grown through repeated terminal expansions into Shanxi's main air gateway and briefly served as a diversionary airport for Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Construction begins in June 1939 on a proposal from the Japanese military occupying Shanxi; the airfield opens in November 1939 as a joint military-civilian facility, with the initial runway and taxiway completed by March 1940.
In October 1948 the People's Liberation Army captures the airport during the Chinese Civil War and converts it to military use; civil operations are transferred to nearby Taiyuan Qinxian Airport in December 1951.
The airport officially reopens for civil aviation on 1 July 1971, with operations relocated back from Qinxian Airport, after having been transferred to the Civil Aviation Administration of China in November 1969.
Terminal 1 and a new runway (13/31) officially open on 25 December 1996, and the airport is upgraded to 4D classification.
Terminal 2 opens on 1 September 2008 (with Terminal 1 closing for renovation), and the airport serves as a diversionary airport for Beijing Capital International Airport during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The airport's classification is upgraded to 4E in January 2012, enabling it to handle larger wide-body aircraft; Terminal 1 reopens in January 2014.
A major Phase III expansion, including a new Terminal 3, is approved on 7 September 2021, with construction beginning later that year.
A new second runway becomes officially operational on 25 December 2025, with the original runway closing for renovation.
General encyclopedic sources (Wikipedia). NOTE: the airport's 1939 founding occurred during the Japanese occupation of Shanxi in WWII; this is presented as historical fact per available sources, not as an endorsement of the circumstances. Phase III expansion (Terminal 3) completion date was not confirmed and should be treated as an ongoing, forward-looking project as of this research.