In 2017, 22 million passengers used Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, ranking it the ninth-busiest nationwide.
More than 1 million passengers entered or left China from January to September at the airport, and the total for the year is estimated to reach 1.3 million.
Pei also said a third terminal is being built at the airport and is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Twenty-one international airlines operate from the airport, and a non-stop flight from Chongqing to Sydney is due to be launched at the end of the year. Non-stop flights to the 45 countries covered by the new policy, including Russia, Germany and Italy, are being planned.
Zhang Xiang, a senior official at the Chongqing Tourism Administration, said that from January to September, the city received nearly 52 million overnight visitors, with 1.7 million coming from overseas.
The majority of foreign visitors came from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, Zhang said.
Chongqing has a population of 30 million, and the downtown area is surrounded by hills and has two rivers.
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