Photo taken on Dec. 19, 2016 on a plane flying from Urumqi to Qiemo shows the Tianshan Mountain in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The flight connecting Qiemo, a far-flung corner of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Urumqi, the regional capital, was launched Monday. Qiemo is over 1,100 kilometers from Urumqi, and 720 km from Korla. The flight will cut travel time between Qiemo and Urumqi to 2.5 hours, from 15 hours by road. The new airport has 120,000 passengers a year, and a cargo handling capacity of 480 tonnes per year. The operating flight will receive state subsidies of about 7 million yuan (about 1 million U.S. dollars) every year. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
