Air China s'apprête à ouvrir le troisième aéroport qui desservira Lhassa après ceux de Lhasa et Qamdo, plus à l'est.
C'est dans la petite ville de Nyingchi, sise à environ 120 km du (75 miles), dans le sud est du Tibet et tout près du fameux Grand Canyon du fleuve Yarlung Zangbo - d'ailleurs proclamé par les géologues chinois comme le plus profond canyon du monde,- que Pékin va mettre en oeuvre ce troisième aéroport, afin de développer le tourisme dans cette région, juste découverte mais déjà réputée pour ses paysages grandioses.
Plus de 120 000 touristespouraient ainsi s' y rendre aisément chaque année, selon les médias nationaux.

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Air China to open Tibet's third airport, expand tourism in remote scenic area
AP[Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:53]
Beijing - China will open a new airport in southeast Tibet, near the border with Myanmar and India, in July, opening a remote area famous for its natural scenery to an additional 120,000 visitors a year, state media said Wednesday.

The Nyingchi Airport was built and will be managed by Air China Southwest Branch Co., a subsidiary of China's flag carrier Air China Ltd., the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Tibet already has two airports, one in the capital, Lhasa, and another in the eastern town of Qamdo.

The city of Nyingchi is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon, which Chinese scientists claim is the world's deepest canyon.

Xinhua quoted a company spokesman as saying that because the Nyingchi Airport is at a lower altitude than the two existing airports, it is "an ideal first stop for tourists to gradually adapt themselves to Tibet's'' high altitude. The spokesman's name was not given.

The airport has a designed annual passenger flow of 120,000, it said. Air China will operate regular Boeing-757 flights between Chengdu in China's southwest and Nyingchi, Xinhua said.

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