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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
URUMQI, May 19 (Xinhua) — A plane of Kazakhstan’s FlyArystan airline with 160 passengers on board landed safely at Yining International Airport in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on May 18, marking the official opening of a direct Almaty-Yining-Almaty charter passenger flight.
As reported to Xinhua by the Yining Customs, after the introduction of a visa-free regime between China and Kazakhstan, the number of tourists traveling from Almaty to the Ili-Kazakh Autonomous Okrug has been constantly growing. The new flight will be operated twice a week: on Thursdays and Sundays, which will give an additional impetus to the development of inbound tourism in the Ili-Kazakh Autonomous Okrug.
Deputy Head of the Customs Inspection Department of Yining Customs Wang Yanju noted that the department had coordinated issues with border services, the airport and relevant Kazakh structures in advance to create a mechanism for exchanging information and promptly tracking flights. In addition, the procedure for customs inspection of luggage of arriving passengers was optimized, which significantly increased the efficiency of passengers passing customs control and ensured the smooth operation of the airline. -0-