NEW AIRPORT IN NORTH-WEST CHINA OPENS FOR CIVILIAN FLIGHTS
February 1st, 2016
A NEW airport in northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region was to start receiving regular civilian flights on February 22. Shihezi airport, which opened in December, was the first civilian airport built by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, an economic and para-military organisation stationed in Xinjiang, noted Chinese state news agency Xinhua. It will initially receive flights from Kashgar, in Xinjiang, and Zhengzhou, in Henan, central China, (being served by a China Southern Airlines Boeing B737). Shihezi is in northern Xinjiang and has a ...
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