The Civil Aviation Administration of China has officially released the "Comprehensive Evaluation Report on Smart Civil Aviation Construction for Major Airports (2024)". Among 42 major airports nationwide, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport claimed the top position with an outstanding total score of 96.1 points. The evaluation, organized by the Smart Civil Aviation Construction Leading Group Office of the CAAC, conducted a systematic assessment across eight key dimensions and 21 critical indicators, including convenient travel, efficient logistics, smart security, intelligent support, collaborative operations, digital construction, reform and innovation, and digital infrastructure. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport demonstrated exceptional performance across multiple metrics.

Aiming for a seamless passenger experience through its "Spring Breeze Service," Baiyun Airport leverages digital transformation achievements to provide robust support for smart service implementation. By deeply integrating intelligent equipment with human-centric care, the airport has established a self-service, convenient, precisely tailored, and fully visible smart service system, transforming travel into an enjoyable experience. Focusing on addressing passenger pain points, Baiyun Airport continuously optimizes smart service scenarios, striving to create an efficient and convenient new travel experience for passengers. In 2025, passenger throughput at Baiyun Airport steadily increased, surpassing the 80 million mark. Behind this massive passenger flow lies the strong support of an intelligent service system. The airport has widely adopted self-service check-in, self-service baggage drop, and self-service boarding facilities, minimizing manual intervention and significantly reducing processing time, making "convenient check-in," "one-stop baggage drop," and "instant boarding" a standard experience for every traveler.

Concurrently, the passenger intelligent service information platform (AISP) has been continuously upgraded. Utilizing advanced facial recognition technology and deeply integrated with core modules such as security inspection information systems and indoor positioning systems, the platform provides passengers with customized flight updates, real-time weather information, and intelligent route guidance. It also offers personalized commercial service recommendations based on travel needs, recording over 15 million clicks annually and becoming an indispensable "smart guide" for travelers. Baiyun Airport adheres to the core principle of "Technology for Good," focusing on the essence of air travel services and catering to the diverse needs of different passenger groups. It continuously refines smart service scenarios, integrating intelligent measures throughout the entire passenger journey to ensure every traveler enjoys convenient and attentive service, making smart services a standard feature.

Additionally, the airport has equipped itself with smart sign language translation devices capable of real-time translation between 24 sign languages and multiple languages. This accurately addresses the communication needs of hearing-impaired passengers, effectively overcoming barriers during ticket purchase, check-in, and boarding, ensuring smooth information flow. Baiyun Airport consistently uses practical technology to enhance service quality, maintaining technical precision while conveying human warmth, ensuring technology truly serves every passenger and achieves comprehensive coverage of smart services.

Baiyun Airport has established a "comprehensive perception, intelligent collaboration, seamless passage" smart security inspection system. Utilizing real-time passenger flow monitoring and big data analysis, an intelligent channel allocation system achieves precise passenger security screening adaptation. The "automatic bin return system" for luggage trays features a fully automated, unmanned circulation design, enabling automatic empty bin delivery and intelligent return after use, freeing up human resources. The "Easy Security" service deeply integrates a credit system with the security process, offering frequent travelers exclusive fast-track channels. Paired with self-service verification gates, it enables millisecond-level verification of person, document, and ticket, allowing for a seamless passage experience. The smart image recognition system, equipped with advanced AI algorithms, conducts millisecond-level precise analysis of baggage X-ray images, automatically annotating the position, type, and quantity of prohibited items. During peak hours, passenger screening efficiency has increased by 40%, achieving a dual improvement in safety and efficiency.

Leveraging technology and data-driven upgrades, Baiyun Airport has enhanced its smart management system for the entire baggage lifecycle. Through deep integration of the baggage system and RFID technology, real-time node information collection and upload are achieved across the entire process from check-in and security inspection to sorting, loading, transfer, and claim. The system also interfaces deeply with multiple core operational systems, breaking down data silos and enabling real-time data sharing and unified storage across different entities and stages, establishing a solid technical foundation for precise baggage tracking. Passengers can access baggage status updates via mobile interfaces, with key nodes from drop-off to claim presented transparently and available for real-time tracking and verification.

Safety is the lifeline of airport operations. Baiyun Airport has built a comprehensive intelligent security system focused on "comprehensive perception, intelligent early warning, and rapid response," achieving the management goal of "early detection, quick handling, zero tolerance" for safety risks. Airside situational awareness is a key trend in civil aviation safety. Baiyun Airport's Foreign Object Debris detection system employs a dual sensor fusion technology combining radar and optical lenses to capture tiny debris on runways全天候, automatically collecting core data like location and size to generate precise warnings, preventing runway safety hazards at the source. A panoramic stitching and runway incursion prevention system, centered on electronic fence technology, establishes a monitoring network at critical runway entrances, identifying abnormal intrusions in real-time and triggering millisecond-level alerts. The pavement smart management platform innovatively achieves full lifecycle digital management of pavement sections, integrating core data from 281 areas including pavement structure and defects, providing data-driven support for scientific decision-making in pavement maintenance. An integrated bird detection and dispersal system combines radar and electro-optical detection to monitor bird activity全天候 at various altitudes, coordinating intelligent bird dispersal equipment and human resources to reduce bird strike risks, demonstrating the technical strength of Baiyun Airport's airside safety.

As smart security evolves from single-point prevention to comprehensive collaboration, Baiyun Airport has established a multi-dimensional security system centered on "precise zonal control and cross-scenario data synergy." The perimeter security management system uses zonal vibration optical fiber detection technology to accurately identify abnormal behaviors like climbing or cutting, triggering audible and visual alarms and pinpointing the incident zone for intelligent closed-loop control. The vehicle inspection system at gates is equipped with high-resolution imaging technology and AI algorithms to automatically scan and identify prohibited items in vehicle undercarriages, improving inspection efficiency while maintaining security accuracy, achieving a balance between safety and efficiency. The restricted items management system, based on civil aviation safety regulations, establishes a management mechanism with "categorized, graded approval and controllable electronic workflow," enabling verification of sharp objects and liquids upon entry, preventing safety risks at the source. The smart safety management platform integrates multi-dimensional data including security personnel and firefighting resources, presenting real-time cross-scenario safety inspection dynamics, enabling integrated command and intelligent dispatch for airport-wide safety management.

Baiyun Airport has strengthened the full lifecycle management of both routine and emergency incidents, achieving fully informatized control of emergency duty, alarm reception and handling, and resource dispatch through an emergency command platform. The platform supports simultaneous calling of 16 phone lines within one minute, enabling real-time coordination with over 20 on-site units and millisecond-level circulation of emergency information. An innovative "peacetime-emergency integration" optimization mechanism is adopted. Through regular tabletop and live drills, emergency response plans and resource allocation are continuously refined, forming a "drill-review-optimize" closed-loop improvement cycle, ensuring preparedness and providing a replicable collaborative model for emergency response at super-large hub airports.

Baiyun Airport has established a full-chain intelligent support system covering flight operations, resource allocation, terminal management, and traffic调度. Through a "Three Middle Platform" architecture, it breaks down information barriers, enabling a shift from "passive response" to "active control" in operational support. Facing increasing flight density and operational complexity typical of hub airports, Baiyun Airport uses intelligent collaboration technologies to address operational challenges. The Airport Collaborative Decision Making system creates a full lifecycle management system for flights, integrating ATC estimated arrival/departure data with airport resource status to intelligently coordinate core resources like stands and shuttle buses, achieving precise matching of "demand and supply." Baiyun Airport innovatively introduced a "short-delay flight release coordination mechanism," establishing a cross-entity collaboration platform with ATC, base airlines, and other on-site units to enable information sharing and joint decision-making, identifying potential delay risks in advance and improving the average flight departure punctuality rate. The Operational Resource Management System, equipped with mixed-integer programming algorithm models, optimizes passenger walking distances and aircraft taxiing distances while ensuring high stand allocation success rates and bridge utilization rates. It automatically generates globally optimal plans daily, maximizing flight operation efficiency.

Baiyun Airport integrates apron and terminal management resources to create a "data-driven, intelligently adaptive, green, and efficient" control model. For flight zone surface management, the Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System enables full-chain information synchronization for aircraft, support vehicles, and operational personnel. The system features intelligent alerting for 14 types of operational risks, serving as the "eyes" and "gatekeeper" for operations controllers, ensuring orderly and efficient surface movement. The apron management system, supported by an Aerodrome Mapping Database data base, integrates data on all airside resources, driving a management model transformation from "passive response" to "active control," with related technological innovations receiving national patent certification. The non-powered equipment management system innovatively applies IoT technology, installing RFID chips on equipment like baggage trolleys and maintenance ladders, enabling "real-time equipment status monitoring and online access control," enhancing精细化管理 of apron equipment.

In terminal area management, intelligent passenger flow analysis equipment and HVAC automatic control systems are deeply linked with flight and passenger flows. Service configurations are dynamically optimized based on relevant data, achieving annual energy savings of 8%-10%, equivalent to 4.3 million - 5.38 million kWh, and saving over 4 million RMB annually in labor and energy costs. A smart gate paging system based on video analysis technology locates passengers who have not boarded in real-time, provides awareness of passenger distribution, and helps improve flight punctuality.

Focusing on "efficient landside operations and smooth passenger connections" as part of integrated transportation development, Baiyun Airport is accelerating the construction of a smart comprehensive transportation hub. The landside traffic flow management system monitors traffic conditions around the airport and within its premises in real-time, automatically identifying abnormal situations like congestion or accidents and triggering alerts, providing data support for traffic management. It also displays real-time parking space availability, guiding vehicle分流 through场内 guidance screens and mobile apps to improve parking resource utilization efficiency. The commercial vehicle intelligent management system uses identity recognition technology to create dedicated lanes for ride-hailing services and taxis, reducing passenger waiting times and improving vehicle turnover efficiency. This achieves seamless integration between air transport and ground transportation, creating a smooth "from home to aircraft door" travel experience for passengers.

This top ranking represents a significant achievement in Baiyun Airport's steadfast advancement of digital transformation. In 2025, the airport promoted 60 new digital projects, added 81 digital employees, ingested data from 74 production systems into its data lake, achieved 100% automatic接入 of domestic airline flight schedules, and saw its "Flight Support Node Data Product" become the group's first commercially traded data asset, entering a new stage of data valorization. An AI task force, based on the "DeepSeek-V3.2 version," delivered results in 13 areas including document writing and procurement consulting. Unmanned driving technology underwent pilot验证 in scenarios like baggage transport and inspection, laying the groundwork for规模化 application.

In 2026, Baiyun Airport will deepen data governance, optimize data service platforms, and promote a leap from "usable" data to "easy-to-use and reliable-to-use" data. It aims to transition from A-CDM to Total Airport Management, upgrade the functional island model, build a unified intelligent dispatch platform, and scale up the推广 of equipment like unmanned shuttle buses and automatic boarding bridges. The airport will implement guidelines for high-quality development integrating AI and civil aviation, strengthening the application of AI in areas like safety, operations, and services. It will advance the construction of a high-precision digital twin airport covering six major scenarios including passenger flow situational awareness and operational simulation, continuously driving high-quality development through innovation.

Moving forward, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport will use this evaluation as a new starting point. Closely following the implementation opinions for high-quality development in "AI + Civil Aviation," the airport will continue to deepen smart airport construction, further consolidate its industry leading position, actively contribute to the building of a world-class airport cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of China's civil aviation.