Nagqu Dagring Airport is an airport scheduled for construction near Nagqu in the Nagqu Prefecture

Nagqu Prefecture

Nagqu Prefecture ; ; Wylie: Nag-chu Sa-khul; simplified Chinese: 那曲地区; pinyin: Nàqū Dìqū) is the largest prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Nagqu has a total area of 450,537 km²...

 of Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

. When completed in 2014 it will be the highest airport in the world at 4436 m (14,553.8 ft), replacing Qamdo Bangda Airport

Qamdo Bangda Airport

Qamdo Bamda Airport , also known as Bangda Airport, located in Bangda, Qamdo, Tibet, is the highest airport in the world, at an elevation of . Runway 14/32 is the longest publicly used runway in the world, at ....

(also in Tibet) as the highest. Construction will begin in 2011 and is scheduled to take three years. The airport is part of a Chinese government development scheme to build 97 airports across China by 2020. By then, the authorities hope that four-fifths of China's population will be within a 90-minute drive of an airport.