Jianggan District was one of ten urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou , the capital of Zhejiang Province , East China . The district was located in the northeast of Hangzhou and on the northern (left) bank of the Qiantang River .
5-524: Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport is located in Jianqiao, Jianggan. Zhejiang Airlines once had its headquarters there. In April 2021, Jianggan District was split between Qiantang District and Shangcheng District . Subdistricts: Towns: This Zhejiang province location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport (or Hangzhou Air Base ), formerly romanized as Schien Chiao ,
10-538: Is a People's Liberation Army Air Force Base in Hangzhou , the capital city of East China 's Zhejiang province. It is located in the town of Jianqiao in Jianggan District , about 7 miles northeast of the city center. It served as the city's civilian airport from 1 January 1957 until 29 December 2000, when all commercial flights were transferred to the newly-built Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport . Jianqiao
15-734: Was a location of major air battles between the Chinese air force and the Imperial Japanese air forces (such as the Jianqiao Battle ) during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45); battles scenes of Jianqiao which were re-enacted in a Taiwanese motion-picture patriotic war drama Heroes of the Eastern Skies (or Heroes of Jianqiao ). In 1956 it was converted to a public airport and civil flights started on January 1, 1957. The airport
20-628: Was developed into an airfield and flight training institute in 1922 under support and directives of the Anhui clique warlord Lu Yongxiang and World War I veteran ace fighter pilot Zhu Binhou , with a squadron of aircraft that included Breguet 14s . Jianqiao air force base was then consolidated in 1931 in wake of the Mukden Incident by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China , and
25-509: Was expanded in 1971 in preparation for the official visit of President Richard Nixon of the United States. In 1990 the runway was again lengthened and widened to 3,200 meters long and 50 meters wide. The airport handled 2,167,400 passengers in 1999, and served 46 routes in 2000 before all civil flights were transferred to the newly built Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport . When Jianqiao Airport serviced commercial flights, it housed
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