Starting April 20, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region will launch a regular flight from capital Yinchuan to Dubai via Kunming, according to the Yinchuan Hedong Airport.

It will be the airport's first regular international flight. Using a Boeing 737 owned by Yunnan Branch of China Eastern Airlines, the flight will fly 7 hours in the air. There will be two flights each week, one taking off on Wednesday and the other on Saturday.