CHINA UNVEILS PLAN TO BUILD HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRPORT ALONG PAKISTAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR BORDER
May 22nd, 2015
China will build its first high altitude airport in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located on the border of the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, providing access to the remote but strategically important area. It will be constructed near Tashkurgan city, where Civil Aviation Engineering Consulting Company of China experts have recently visited three shortlisted locations. The Xinjiang aviation authority says the new airport be around 3,200 metres above sea level. There are already 20 airports in the region, including Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport, which ...
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