
This fascinating time-lapse video made with hundreds of satellite images shows China's new £9 billion mega airport taking shape over a period of three and a half years on the outskirts of its capital city.

Beijing Daxing International Airport, whose terminal building is designed by late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, is in its last stage of construction.

It will become one of the world's busiest and largest hubs when it opens late this year.

With a total of seven runways in plan, the airport occupies a piece of land four-fifth the size of Manhattan and is expected to handle 100 million passenger a year in the long run.

With an expected passenger volume of 100 million a year in the long run, Beijing Daxing International Airport will be one of the world's busiest airport. The airport's six-wing terminal building is designed by late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid

Carriers including Air China and China Eastern Airlines are sending their aircraft to the airport for test flights from next week. The £9 billion airport, which will have seven runways, is scheduled to complete on June 30 and open on September 30

The new facility will double the size of Beijing Capital Airport, the city's current main airport and the largest airport in China

The airport has gone through a two-month assessment to check the quality of the runways and air-control facilities.

Major Chinese carriers including Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines are sending their flagship aircraft to the airport for test flights from next Monday, according to Daxing authorities.

The airport is scheduled to complete on June 30 and open on September 30.

The video, comprising two parts, captures the construction of the entire airport and its six-wing terminal between September 2015 and February 2019.

One part of the time-lapse video uses images to show the construction of the airport's terminal building (above). The airport, situated in the Daxing district of Beijing, is in its last stage of construction and expected to open its doors on September 30

Another part shows the construction of the entire airport, including the runways. Four runways will be complete when the first passengers check in at the airport in autumn and a total of seven have been planned at the sprawling new landmark

Daxing, a chess piece for China's civil aviation, is built with 1.6 million cubic metres of concrete and 52,000 tonnes of steel

The video was made by Kamil Onoszko, a spatial planner from Poland.

'I am passionate about satellite images and the changes that we are able to capture from the satellite level. This construction is amazing because it shows what a great job mankind can do,' Onoszko told MailOnline.

He added: 'The changes in the landscape were made very quickly in a very grand way. The airport architecture is simply beautiful and it can be seen even from the satellite ceiling.'

The satellite images, shot from an orbit 786 kilometres (488 miles) above the ground, were taken from the database of 'Copernicus', the EU's Earth Observation and Monitoring Programme.

The programme collects and analyses data from seven fully operational satellites, which monitor the surface of the whole globe, according to a spokesperson at Copernicus.

One of its satellites, Sentinel-2, passes over any point of the Earth every five days with a resolution of 10m.

'It can, therefore, be used to make time-lapses that look quite nice,' the spokesperson told MailOnline.

'Airport construction gives a good opportunity to make time-lapses as they are massive in terms of infrastructure and surface. Daxing being the world's largest, it was a "target of choice".'

Facial-recognition devices will reportedly be used during the security and immigration screenings at the cutting-edge airport

An interior view of one terminal of Beijing Daxing International Airport under construction in Beijing on April 26. China aspires to become an aviation powerhouse on the global stage, and the new Beijing airport is a key chess piece

Beijing Daxing International Airport will dwarf all Chinese airports in terms of its capacity. According to Xinhua , it is due to process 72 million passengers, two million tonnes of cargo, as well as 620,000 takeoffs and landings a year by 2025

With an expected passenger volume of 100 million a year in the long run, Beijing Daxing International Airport will be one of the world's busiest airports, rubbing shoulders with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the United States.

It is also set to be one of the world's largest airfields, occupying 47 square kilometres (18 square miles), which is the equivalent to 33 Hype Parks or four-fifth of Manhattan.

The brand new facility will double the size of Beijing Capital Airport, the city's current main airport and the largest airport in China.

Four runways will be complete when the first passengers check in at the airport in autumn and a total of seven have been planned to handle China's growing number of air travellers.

The gigantic airport is made up of 1.6 million cubic metres of concrete and 52,000 tonnes of steel.

In the long run, the air transport hub will boast an annual capacity of 100 million passengers, four million tonnes of cargo as well as 880,000 takeoffs and landings. China Eastern Airlines Corp and China Southern Airlines Co, will relocate there

The construction of Beijing Daxing International Airport comes as the country is witnessing a fast growth in its civil aviation industry. China is expected to overtake the United States as the world's largest aviation market in the mid-2020s

The airport has gone through a two-month assessment to check the quality of the airport's runways and air-control facilities

China aspires to become an aviation powerhouse on the global stage, and the new Beijing airport is a key chess piece - after the country unveiled its home-made C919 passenger plane to take on Boeing and Airbus.

Beijing Daxing International Airport will dwarf all Chinese airports in terms of its capacity.

According to Xinhua, it is due to process 72 million passengers, two million tonnes of cargo, as well as 620,000 takeoffs and landings per year by 2025.

While in the long run, the transport hub will boast an annual capacity of 100 million passengers, four million tonnes of cargo as well as 880,000 takeoffs and landings.

The airport will also be equipped with cutting-edge technologies. Facial-recognition devices will reportedly be used during the security and immigration screenings.

Two of China's three major airlines, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, will relocate to the airport upon its completion and they will account for roughly four-fifths of the new airport's total traffic.