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1st LD: China conducts successful test flights at newly-built airfield in South China Sea

Xinhua, January 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

China conducted successful test flights on a newly-built airfield in the South China Sea on Wednesday.

Two civilian aircraft took off from the Meilan Airport of Haikou, capital of Hainan Province and landed at the airfield on Yongshu Jiao in the Nansha Islands at 10:21 a.m. ad 10:46 a.m. respectively. They flew back to Haikou on Wednesday afternoon. Endi