On May 14th, Finnair opened a direct flight between Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province, and Helsinki, the capital of Finland. According to Finnair, the new air route shows Finnair's expanding airline network in the booming Chinese market.
On May 17th, Shenzhen Donghai Airlines announced that it will open a direct flight between Wanzhou, a district in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, and the Thai resort city of Pattaya.
Designed to take pressure off overcrowded Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing new international airport’s main construction work will be completed by the end of this year.
After being docked in 2012, the Wusongkou liner cruise restarted operation on May 12, providing an alternative to the regular 1-hour cruise on the Huangpu River in Shanghai.