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Pu Dong International Airport

Pu Dong International Airport (浦东国际机场) is an airport located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Its IATA Airport Code is PVG.

Hongqiao Airport was at first Shanghai's primary international airport, but all of its international flights went to Pu Dong after it was completed.

Transrapid (a German maglev company, which has a test track in Emsland, Germany), constructed the first operational maglev railway in the world, from Shanghai, to the Pu Dong International Airport. It was inaugurated in 2002. It has a peak speed of 430 km/hr and a track length of 30 km.

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