BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) – Chinese airline company Xiamen Airlines is about to open a direct flight between Paris and Fuzhou, capital city of east China's Fujian Province, announced the company on Wednesday in Paris.
The new route will be officially put into service as from December 11 this year, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday run by Boeing 787-9 aircraft.
The opening of the new route shows that Sino-French cooperation in trade and tourism has become closer, and will facilitate the exchanges between France and China's Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang provinces as well as others, according to Cai Guofeng, general representative of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) in France. (Edited by Li Wenxin, liwenxin@xinhua.org)