Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport — Qingdao (Jiaozhou), China

Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, coded TAO, opened in 2021 in Jiaozhou, replacing the older Liuting Airport that had served the city for decades. Built with a distinctive star-shaped terminal echoing the design used at Beijing Daxing, the facility has room to expand with additional runways as air travel demand along China's eastern coast keeps rising. Qingdao itself blends a maritime economy with a legacy of German colonial architecture and is internationally recognized for Tsingtao beer, brewed near its harbor since the early twentieth century. TAO now serves as the primary hub for Shandong Airlines, connecting the city to destinations across mainland China plus international routes reaching Japan, South Korea, and parts of Southeast Asia. The move from Liuting freed downtown land while giving the new airport room to grow into a major logistics and passenger gateway for Shandong province.