Davies estimated the total economic cost of not building runways at £30-45bn by 2080.
China has reclaimed islands artificially for decades, building runways and military installations on once-isolated coral reefs.
That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and financial hurdles involved in building runways and terminals, as well as community opposition to planes flying overhead.
The agency said that it chose the city's plan, which involves building runways and taxiways and modifying others, over about 20 other proposals.
Chinese mining companies have proved adept at working in challenging locales and have even proposed building runways for jumbo jets on the ice in Greenland's far north to fly out minerals until the ice melts enough for shipping.
The United States, which has criticised China for militarising the waterway, estimates Beijing has added more than 3,200 acres of land on seven features in the South China Sea over the past three years, building runways, ports, aircraft hangars and communications equipment.
Now, Peter, who is an engineer, comes back tired from building runways in a town in northeast Thailand on the border of Laos for a couple of days every week, and makes love less.
Building runways also is limited by reality.
Aronsson's response to the question of a startup fashion brand's 5-year projections, was that fashion companies have a longer revenue-building runway.
Because the game does not use the coprocessor chip Super FX, the true SNES 3D technology, the buildings, runway, trees, and so on are all "painted" flat on the ground plane, and they appear to stick out of the ground when the player's viewpoint is far above.
