CHINA OPENS THREE AIRPORTS DESIGNED TO BOOST TOURISM
November 1st, 2017
OPERATIONS are now under way at three airports in China expected to carry significant levels of tourist traffic. Songyuan Chaganhu Airport is one, in Jilin province, in China’s far-northeast, in a declining industrial region. It is 27km from Chagan Lake Nature Reserve, which tourists visit to watch ice fishermen on China’s largest freshwater lakes – the airport can handle 400,000 passengers-a-year. Another is Jiansanjiang Airport, Heilongjiang province, also in the far north-east, handling 250,000 passengers annually. It is near the Russian border and to ...
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