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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
WUHAN, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — A direct flight from Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, to Moscow resumed on Tuesday, boosting exchanges between the two countries.
China Southern Airlines flight CZ8003 took off from Wuhan at around 3pm local time on Tuesday with 271 passengers on board. The flight will operate twice a week on an Airbus A350-900 aircraft, departing Wuhan on Sundays and Tuesdays.
The flight departs Wuhan at 15:10 Beijing time and arrives in Moscow at 19:15 local time. The return flight departs Moscow at 21:15 local time and lands in Wuhan at 10:30 Beijing time the following day.
The service was first launched in July 2014 but was later suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The resumption of the service has been met with enthusiasm, with the seat booking rate for round-trip flights this month at around 80 percent, according to Wang Gang, general manager of China Southern Airlines' Hubei branch.
Earlier, China announced the introduction of a visa-free entry regime for Russian holders of ordinary foreign passports from September 15 of this year to September 14, 2026. Russia, for its part, announced that it would respond in kind to this measure.
Russian Lyudmila Chistyakova just completed a week-long trip to Wuhan. She first traveled from Moscow to Guangzhou and then flew to Wuhan. The Russian was very happy that she could now return directly from Wuhan to Moscow.
L. Chistyakova noted that the visa-free regime introduced by China for Russian citizens makes exchanges between the countries more convenient. –0–
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