Zhalantun Chengjisihan Airport (Zhalantun

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Airport) is an airport that serves the city of

Zhalantun Zalantun (Manchu ' or ') or Zhalantun (; Mongolian: ''Жалан-Айл хот''), is a city with an estimated population of 132,408 and administrative division of Hulunbuir Prefecture-level city, Inner Mongolia, China. It is in the northeastern ...

Hulunbuir Hulunbuir or Hulun Buir ( mn, , ''Kölün buyir'', Mongolian Cyrillic: Хөлөнбуйр, ''Khölönbuir''; zh, s=呼伦贝尔, ''Hūlúnbèi'ěr'') is a region that is governed as a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China. ...

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

, China. It is located near Chengjisihan (

) Town, from the city center. The airport opened in December 2016.

History

Zhalantun airport received approval from the

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and the Central Military Commission on 19 June 2013. Construction started on 16 July with a total investment of 438 million yuan. The airport opened on 28 December 2016 with the arrival of a

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flight from

Hohhot Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.''The Ne ...

Facilities

Zhalantun airport has a single runway with dimensions . The passenger terminal covers and can handle 280,000 people per year. The airport's annual cargo capacity is .

Airlines and destinations

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