The annual passenger throughput of China's civil airport industry totaled more than 1.35 billion trips in 2019, an increase of 6.9% from the previous year, according to a new report released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on March 9, 2020.

More than 1.21 billion trips were made on domestic routes, including routes to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan – up 6.5% from 2018. In comparison, the passenger capacity of international flights surged by 10.4% to 139.4 million trips.

As of 2019, there were 237 civil airports on the Chinese mainland, including four that were newly opened that year, including Beijing Daxing International Airport. Meanwhile, regular flight services were now running to 234 Chinese cities, according to the report.

Among them, 39 airports registered an annual passenger throughput of more than 10 million, which accounted for 83.3% of the passenger capacity of all domestic airports, down 0.3 percentage points from 2018, the CAAC data showed.

Beijing Capital International Airport handled more than 100 million passengers in 2019, making it the busiest airport on the Chinese mainland.

Top 10 busiest airports on the Chinese mainland, by passenger traffic: 

10. Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport

Annual passenger throughput in 2019: 40.1 million (40,108,405)