The second runway at Jiangbei International Airport is expected to be finished in July 2010, according to Chongqing municipal government. The project was started in September 2008 and is now 30 per cent complete. A new terminal is to be completed by November 2010.

By 2015, the airport is expected to handle 30m passengers and 450,000 tons of cargo. In 2007 it handled 10.4m passengers.