Tashkurgan Khunjerab Airport () is an airport in

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

province,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It opened on December 23, 2022. At an elevation of 3,200 m, it is Xinjiang's first high plateau airport. Construction started on 26 April 2020 with an expected investment of or . The airport has been designed to handle 400 tons and 160,000 passengers annually. Test flights were started at the airport in May 2022. The airport is seen to be part of a larger effort to develop the region commercially and to support the land route, a part of the

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) (; ur, چین پاکستان اقتصادی راہداری) is a collection of infrastructure projects that are under construction throughout Pakistan beginning in 2013. Originally valued at $47 billi ...

, and the larger

Belt and Road Initiative The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road ( zh, link=no, 一带一路) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 150 ...

. It is also seen as a larger part of China's border infrastructure improvement and its 14th Five Year Plan.

Airlines and destinations

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