Libo County
| Libo County | |
|---|---|
| County | |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese | 荔波县 |
| • Pinyin | Lìbō Xiàn |
 | |
  Libo County Location of the county | |
| Coordinates: 25°25′N 107°53′E / 25.417°N 107.883°ECoordinates: 25°25′N 107°53′E / 25.417°N 107.883°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guizhou |
| Prefecture | Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,432 km2 (939 sq mi) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 160,000 |
| • Density | 66/km2 (170/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 558400 |
| Area code(s) | 0584 |
| Website | http://www.libo.gov.cn/ |
Libo County (Chinese: 荔波县; pinyin: Lìbō Xiàn) is a county of Guizhou, China. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
Geography
The county is located in the remote southeastern corner of the prefecture, on the border with Guangxi. Two local karst sites, Xiaoqikong (小七孔) and Dongduo (洞多), form part of the multi-site South China Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2007.[1]
Transportation
The Qiannan/Libo Airport, opened in late 2007, has capacity to receive planes of the Boeing 737 class, and to handle up to 220,000 passengers annually.[2] However, the $57-million facility is rather underutilized so far.[2] According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) statistics, 151 paying passengers flew into or out of the airport in 2009 - which was a 98% drop compared to the previous year (7886 passengers), and placed the airport the last in list of the nation's 166 airports by traffic volume.[3] According to a Los Angeles Times reporter who visited the airport, the facility is served only by twice-a-week flight to the provincial capital, Guiyang.[2]
References
- ↑ South China Karst
- 1 2 3 "Plenty of new airports but few passengers in China: A construction spree brings flight service to some unlikely locales, and a hoped-for spurt in air traffic fails to materialize." David Pierson / Los Angeles Time / March 12, 2010
- ↑ 民航机场业务量 Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (Civil Airports Operations Volume), at the CAAC site [This is apparently an HTML file, not an Excel file, despite its extension].