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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
KUNMING, June 30 (Xinhua) — Flights in both directions between Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, and Mandalay in Myanmar, which were suspended in March due to a powerful earthquake, resumed on Sunday.
According to the Yunnan branch of China Eastern Airlines, flights MU2029/MU2030 on the Kunming-Mandalay route are operated by Boeing 737 aircraft. The schedule remains the same: four round-trip flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Flights were suspended after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28. The natural disaster damaged many facilities, including the infrastructure of the Mandalay airport.
China Eastern Airlines expressed confidence that the resumption of air traffic will have a positive impact on bilateral trade, cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and cooperation in post-disaster recovery between China and Myanmar, and will strengthen ties between Yunnan Province and Southeast Asia.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) remained China’s largest trading partner in January-May. During this period, trade turnover between the two sides reached 3.02 trillion yuan (about 422 billion US dollars), an increase of 9.1 percent compared to the same period last year. -0-