Off the wire
• Far-right Aussie Senator invited to Trump inauguration, but not PM Turnbull  • 2nd LD Writethru: S.Korean independent counsel seeks arrest warrant for Samsung heir  • Xi's speeches at G20 Hangzhou Summit published  • French ex-economy minister wins 2nd TV debate ahead of left primary: poll  • 1st LD Writethru: S.Korean independent counsel seeks arrest warrant for Samsung heir  • Urgent: S.Korean independent counsel seeks arrest warrant for Samsung heir  • Singapore imposes road charge on foreign-registered cars  • Tokyo shares lose ground in morning on Japan's weak machinery orders, yen's rise  • Duan Yingying takes first ever Australian Open win  • 25th Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum opens in Fiji  
You are here: 　 Home

Xinjiang to build 9 new airports in 2017

Xinhua, January 16, 2017 Adjust font size:

Construction of nine new airports will start or be completed in 2017 in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to authorities Monday.

"Two new airports in counties of Shache and Ruoqiang will be completed and put into operation, while the airports of Korla City and Hotan City will enter operation after expansion," said Zhang Chunlin, director of the region's reform and development commission.

Zhang said that expansion or construction of the other five airports in the region would also begin in the year.

Preparatory work on a further seven new airports is also ongoing.

Xinjiang currently has 18 airports, the most of any province in China. Endi