The new terminal at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, a major civil aviation hub in South China, opened on Thursday, and will greatly boost domestic and international passenger and cargo capacity in the region.

T2, the largest single airport terminal building on the Chinese mainland — with a total area of 658,700 square meters — includes a wide variety of advanced automatic boarding and security check facilities, and boasts 58 passenger boarding jetways.

With the opening of T2, the airport — which now includes two terminals and three runways — will have a capacity of 70 million passengers this year, according to the airport authority.