From The Economic Times:

In peak periods such as this week’s National Day holiday, when a fully loaded passenger jet lands or takes off at the Beijing Capital International Airport every minute, the strain begins to show.

The airport has been a work in progress for most of the past decade, giving it the capability now to handle 35 million passengers a year, but it is still not enough, and it is involved in yet another expansion project. A third passenger terminal is being built, and once it stands ready in 2007, one year ahead of the Olympics, it will be able to process up to 60 million passengers annually, or the entire population of France.