With its new terminal, the currently overtaxed beijing airport should be able to handle some 90 million passengers yearly by 2012-- more people than the population of france-- and well over twice its current capacity of about 35 million 首都机场目前已经不堪重负,而有了新的航站楼以后,到2012年首都机场每年可承受的旅客吞吐量将达到9,000万人次左右比法国的人口还多,是其目前3,500万人次的两倍多。