The Development of Yi Baishi Airport

Yi Baishi Airport is located at 23 places in the southwest of Chongqing, 25 kilometers away from the center of Chongqing.

In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1 938), on May1day, the Sichuan provincial government ordered the Yongchuan Administrative Supervision District Commissioner's Office and the Air Station to be responsible for the investigation and construction of Zishiyi Airport. Investigation was started on July 1, and the airport construction committee was established on July 1 1, and construction started on October 5th 165438, with 922.236 mu of land acquisition and 6678 people. In the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), the airport was basically completed on June 30th. * * * 1200m×500m site leveling, mud-bound macadam length 1 150m, width 100m, * * * excavation 429865.7m3, filling 89 1058.9m3.

At the end of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), the Aviation Committee decided to expand and repair the airport again. The main projects include: building an 800-meter ×400-meter preparatory runway in the northwest, which is herringbone with the original runway; Change the facilities in the northern part of the airport; Due to the need to build a new runway, increase the number of southern venues; Change the facilities in the south of the airport; Construction of traffic roads in the northwest and east of the airport; Repair and traction machine tracks; Widening Laibai Highway (i.e. parallel road of chariots); Building the seventh service road; Provincial road reconstruction, etc. 10. From Baxian, Jiangbei and other counties 12, 200 migrant workers were recruited15,200 to participate in the construction. The expansion project started in the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939) and is scheduled to be completed before the busy farming season in the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940). However, it was not completed until June of 3 1 (1942) in the Republic of China, and the project cost far exceeded the original budget. This expansion involves 885.662 mu of expropriated land. After the expansion, the north-south length of the airport scene is 1 500m, and the main runway length is 1 000m.

In 32 years (1943), the northern part of the airport was expanded and repaired again, and both ends of the runway were lengthened. * * * Land requisition 17 1.45l mu, earth excavation18214.56m3, stone excavation19587.49m3, filling 89461.33m3. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the airport was the residence of the US Air Force Command in China, and 196.096 mu of land was requisitioned for the construction of barracks.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the airport was dual-use. In the 38th year of the Republic of China (1949) and in June of 12, the "two airlines" were ordered to start renovating the Yi Baishi airport. In order to avoid affecting navigation as much as possible, the project is divided into two steps. First, AVIC and China Airlines renovated the tarmac and taxiway by themselves, in which the tarmac is100ft×100ft cement concrete pavement.

Premier Zhou Enlai met with Prince Sihanouk in Chongqing. Due to the bad weather, the plane of the Prime Minister could not land at Chongqing Airport and was forced to fly to Chengdu, but the trip was still delayed. As a result, Premier Zhou Enlai was quite dissatisfied and ordered the reconstruction of Chongqing Airport, which was later expanded to 2,600 meters, making it a 4C-class general airport and imposing military control on landing civil aircraft.

1980, expanded to 3600 meters for the fourth time, and became the Chongqing Yi Baishi airport for military and civilian use.

After Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport 199 1 was put into use, it was stopped for civilian use and changed back to a military airport.