Mianyang Nanjiao Airport Guide

Mianyang Nanjiao Airport lies in Fucheng District, about 10 km from central Mianyang in northern Sichuan. Its IATA code is MIG and its ICAO code is ZUMY. The name means "southern suburbs" in Chinese. It is a class 4C civil airport that the city shares with the Mianyang branch of the Civil Aviation Flight University of China, which uses it for pilot training.

The site has aviation roots back to 1956, when it became the base of a regiment of the China Civil Aviation Advanced Aviation School. Construction was approved in 1994 and ground was broken in July 1997. The airport opened on 28 April 2001 and replaced the older Mianyang Tangxun Airport. It was upgraded to class 4D in 2003 and 4E in 2008. During the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake it served as a hub for relief flights, rescue personnel and medical evacuations.

The airfield has one concrete runway, 14/32, 2,400 m long. The terminal building covers 26,000 square metres, and the apron has 11 aircraft stands. The airport is designed for 2 million passengers a year. Traffic passed 3 million in 2017 and peaked at 4.15 million in 2019, when Chengdu Shuangliu Airport was close to capacity. In 2025 it handled 3,286,383 passengers, 191,020 aircraft movements and 7,492.8 tonnes of cargo.