The New Airport Line of the Guangzhou No. 3 Subway will be 30.8 kilometers long and will have 10 stations. It starts from Guangzhou East Railway Station, via Yantang, Meihua Garden, Nanfa Hospital, Tonghe, Yongtai, Jiahe, Longgui and Renhe stations, to arrive at New Airport. There will be a south and a north station at New Airport. The section is scheduled to start construction in the middle of 2006 and be completed in 2009.Due to the complex geological situation of roads leading to the new airport, the sections between Yantang Station and Tonghe Station and between South and North stations will go underground. The section from Longgui Station to Renhe Station will be built at ground level with the rest on a viaduct. The ground-level section will be 1.57 kilometers long and the rest will have a total length of 17.03 kilometers.The new subway will have a designed maximum speed of 120 km per hour. The trains will each have six carriages. The New Airport Line is scheduled to complete the initial phase, mid-term phase, and long-term phase in 2012, 2019, and 2034 respectively. The maximum one-way passenger turnover will be about 2 million in a peak hour.Construction of the subway is scheduled to start in mid-2006 and be completed at the end of 2009. The tunnel construction of the South Station and the 1.73-km-long section between both ends has been completed together with the first phase construction of the new airport.The completion of the New Airport Line, together with the No.3 Subway, will form an express transport system between the airport and southern areas and will provide great convenience for people in the Pearl River Delta to travel by air.