What it's like to travel through Beijing's futuristic new airport, which is shaped like a starfish and is the biggest single terminal in the world

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October 17, 2019 3:21 PM

Andrea Verdelli/Business Insider

My journey started at Caoqiao station in central Beijing, where I took the newly-built Daxing Line straight to the airport. President Xi Jinping also took this train when he inaugurated the airport in September.

China opened its new international airport to great fanfare in late September.
Beijing Daxing International is the largest single-terminal airport in the world. The project cost $63 billion and took four years to build.
I traveled through the airport and experienced the futuristic architecture and state-of-the-art facilities first-hand earlier this month.
Scroll down to see my journey.
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BEIJING, China China officially opened its shiny new airport to commercial flights on September 25, 2019, with President Xi Jinping personally conducting the inauguration.

Beijing Daxing International Airport , which was designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid, is the largest single terminal in the world. The entire project cost $63 billion and took four years to complete.

I took a flight from Beijing to Shanghai out of Daxing earlier this month despite its name, it also serves domestic flights and had the chance to experience the futuristic architecture and play around with state-of-the-art facilities first-hand.

Scroll down to see what my trip was like.

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