BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's air transport market continued to see a gradual recovery in August, a civil aviation official said Tuesday.
The total air transport turnover last month declined 34.6 percent year on year to 7.54 billion tonne-km. The decline narrowed 4.7 percentage points from July, according to Wu Shijie, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
The passenger throughput stood at 45.539 million trips in August, down 25.6 percent from the same period last year, narrowing 8.5 percentage points from July.
Cargo and mail throughput fell 13.3 percent year on year to 546,000 tonnes last month. The decrease was 2.9 percentage points higher than that registered in July.
(Edited by Yang Yifan with Xinhua Silk Road, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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