BEIJING — Rising out of the farmlands of southern Beijing in a web of concrete, rebar and glass, one of the world’s largest airports is preparing to open after just five years of construction — a striking contrast to the infrastructure travails of far richer places. (See: New York City, subway; Britain, train service; Berlin, airport.)
北京——在北京南郊的農田里，一個由混凝土、鋼筋和玻璃構成的網狀建筑拔地而起，這個世界上最大的機場之一已做好了投入使用的準備，其建設僅用了五年的時間，與那些更富裕的地方令人痛苦的基礎設施項目，形成了鮮明的對比。（見：紐約的地鐵，英國的火車服務，柏林的機場。）

Just as impressive as its speed are the airport’s broader goals. It is meant to shift the Chinese capital’s center of gravity away from its high-tech university district in the north toward its poorer southern suburbs — part of an even more ambitious plan to remake Beijing and its hinterland into an 82,000-square-mile economic locomotive for northern China.
這個機場更宏觀的目標與其建設速度一樣令人驚嘆。其目的是把中國首都的重心從北部的高科技大學區轉移到更為貧困的南部郊區，這是一個更加雄心勃勃計劃的一部分，該計劃旨在把北京及其腹地改造成中國北方一個21萬平方公里的經濟引擎。

Scheduled to open next September, the Beijing Daxing International Airport will lift China’s capital into the stratosphere of aviation superlatives. By 2025, the airport will be able to serve 72 million passengers a year. That, along with the existing Beijing Capital International Airport’s annual capacity of 96 million passengers, would make Beijing one of the world’s busiest city airport systems, rivaling for top spot the 170 million carried by London’s six airports, based on 2017 figures. Ultimately, Daxing is expected to handle 100 million passengers a year.
北京大興國際機場定于明年9月投入使用，它將把中國首都提升到航空領域的頂級水平。到2025年，該機場每年將接待7200萬乘客。連同現有的北京首都國際機場每年9600萬的旅客吞吐量，將讓北京擁有世界上最繁忙的城市機場系統之一，足以與世界第一的倫敦機場系統媲美，倫敦六個機場2017年的數據是接待了1.7億人次的客運量。大興機場預計最終能力是每年接待1億人次的旅客。

Beijing Daxing occupies 18 square miles of land, more than two-thirds the size of Manhattan, in southern Beijing and the adjacent province of Hebei. It’s trumpeted as a key part of the “Jing-Jin-Ji” economic development plan, which will unite Beijing, Hebei, and the port city of Tianjin into an economic region to rival the country’s more prosperous economic hubs, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
北京大興機場占地面積達47平方公里，面積超過曼哈頓的三分之二，它位于北京市南部和鄰近的河北省之間。它被宣傳為“京津冀”協同發展規劃的重要組成部分，該計劃將把北京、河北和港口城市天津組合成一片經濟區，與中國更繁榮的經濟中心上海和廣州相媲美。