Shache Ye'erqiang Airport is an
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...
that serves
Yarkant County
Yarkant County,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also Shache County,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also transliterated from Uyghur as Yakan County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...
(Shache) in
Kashgar Prefecture
Kashgar, also known as Kashi, is a prefecture located in southwestern Xinjiang, China, located in the Tarim Basin region (roughly the southern half of Xinjiang). It has an area of and 4,496,377 inhabitants at the 2020 census with a population d ...
of
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It is located near Zerepshat/Zirefuxiati Village (, ). The airport received approval from the
State Council of China
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and the
Central Military Commission Central Military Commission may refer to:
*Central Military Commission (China), the highest national defense organization in the People's Republic of China.
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in January 2014. The estimated cost of construction was 541 million yuan.
Shache Airport opened on 1 August 2017 as the 19th airport in Xinjiang.
Facilities
''Carnoc'' reported in 2014 that the airport would have a 3,000-meter runway (class 4C), a 3,000 square-meter terminal building, and four aircraft parking places. It is projected to handle 200,000 passengers and 830 tons of cargo annually by 2020.
Airlines and destinations
See also
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List of airports in China
This is a list of public airports in the People's Republic of China grouped by Provinces of China, provincial-level division and sorted by main city or county served. It includes civil airports and certified general airports, but excludes general ...
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List of the busiest airports in China
China's busiest airports are a series of lists ranking the 100 busiest airports in Mainland China according to the number of total passengers, including statistics for total aircraft movements and total cargo movements, following the official ...
References
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Airports in Xinjiang
Airports established in 2017
Kashgar Prefecture
2017 establishments in China