Xinjiang to build 9 new airports

Construction on nine new airports will be launched or completed in 2017 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Daily reported.

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

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

Preparatory work on a further seven new airports is also under way.