Wednesday 25 June 2014
Libo County is
a county of Guizhou, China. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei
and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. The county is located in the remote
southeastern corner of the prefecture, on the border with Guangxi. Two local karst
sites, Xiaoqikong, form part of the multi-site South China Karst UNESCO World
Heritage Site inscribed in 2007. The Qiannan/Libo Airport, opened in late 2007,
has capacity to receive planes of the Boeing 737 class, and to handle up to
220,000 passengers annually. However, the
$57-million facility is rather underutilized so far.
According to the CAAC statistics, merely 151 paying passengers flew into
or out of the airport in 2009 - which was a 98% drop compared to the previous
year (7886 passengers), and placed the airport the last in list of the nation's
166 airports by traffic volume. Source
