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Shache Airport (IATA: QSZ, ICAO: ZWSC) is an airport that serves Yarkant County (Shache) in Kashgar Prefecture of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It is located near Zirefuxiati Village (孜热甫夏提) of Zirefuxiati Tajik Township. The airport received approval from the State Council of China and the Central Military Commission in January 2014. The estimated cost of construction was 541 million yuan.[1] Shache Airport opened on 1 August 2017 as the 19th airport in Xinjiang.[2]

Shache Airport
IATA: QSZ ICAO: ZWSC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Yarkant (Shache), Xinjiang, China
Location	Zirefuxiati
Opened	1 August 2017
Elevation AMSL	1,290 m / 4,232 ft
Coordinates	38.245°N 77.060°E / 38.245; 77.060
Map
QSZ Location of airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 15/33 3,000 9,843
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 277,259 Aircraft movements 4,420 Cargo (metric tons) 1,378.7
Source:[1]

Shache Airport
Simplified Chinese	莎车机场
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shāchē Jīchǎng

Facilities

Carnoc reported in 2014 that the airport would have a 3,000-meter runway (class 4C), a 3,000 square-meter terminal building, and four aircraft parking places. It is projected to handle 200,000 passengers and 830 tons of cargo annually by 2020.[1]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
China Eastern Airlines	Xi'an
China Express Airlines	Kashgar, Korla
China Southern Airlines	Urumqi[2][3]
Tianjin Airlines	Kuqa, Urumqi

See also

• List of airports in China
• List of the busiest airports in China

References

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