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Beijing's highly-anticipated new airport has opened for business!
The Beijing Daxing International Airport is the size of 100 football fields, and boasts a main terminal which, at 700,000 sq m, is the largest one in the world.
The building itself is pretty eye-catching, looking like something out of a sci-fi film with a main 'body' and eight arms connecting the main hub to the various runways.
Passengers will be mainly in the central body of the airport which is home to the shops, restaurants and airport security.
It's a pretty impressive architectural feat, so it comes as no surprise that the airport was designed by the late Zaha Hadid , who has been behind some pretty incredible buildings around the world.
The new airport is estimated to host up to 72 million passengers annually by 2025, although it's actually been designed to accommodate closer to 100 million.