Longhua Airport / 龙华机场

Overview

Longhua Airport / 龙华机场 is the former Shanghai airport site used as the physical setting and historical cue for the Shengdong Jixi aviation roundtable.

Current Profile

The source presents Longhua Airport as a place where aviation history and urban redevelopment overlap. Xu Tao identifies the live-event location as Shanghai West Bund, the former Longhua Airport area, and ties the airport name to nearby Longhua Temple.

Longhua’s function in the episode is not only archival. It lets the speakers contrast early aircraft assembly, repair, storage, and multi-stop international routes with today’s routine long-haul travel, making the airport a local reminder that modern aviation depends on decades of infrastructure, technology, and city-space change.

Key Characteristics

• Former Shanghai aviation site used as the roundtable’s place-based opening.
• Historical cue for early aircraft operations before contemporary airport systems.
• Example of airport infrastructure later becoming urban memory and redevelopment context.

Evidence

• Place-based opening: #403 从八十年飞行史，看城市、社会和我们自己的改变丨国泰航空 x 声东击西 locates the event at Shanghai West Bund and identifies it with the old Longhua Airport site.
• Early aviation functions: #403 从八十年飞行史，看城市、社会和我们自己的改变丨国泰航空 x 声东击西 says the site once handled aircraft assembly, repair, and storage.
• Memory function: #403 从八十年飞行史，看城市、社会和我们自己的改变丨国泰航空 x 声东击西 uses Longhua to make the hidden evolution behind ordinary modern flying visible.

Qualifications

The source does not provide a full Longhua Airport chronology, closure history, ownership record, or redevelopment history. The page should remain a source-scoped airport-memory node until more historical sources are ingested.

What Changed

• Created the page for the aviation-history setting of the episode.
• Connected airport heritage to the wiki’s broader urban-memory branch.

Relationships

• Cathay Pacific / 国泰航空 - airline whose early story is tied to the Longhua opening frame.
• 声东击西 - show that recorded the live roundtable at the site.
• Urban Architectural Memory / 城市建筑记忆 - adjacent city-memory concept for built environments retaining public meaning.
• Aviation Infrastructure Urban Development / 航空基础设施与城市发展 - infrastructure concept Longhua grounds historically.