Heihe Aihui Airport is the airport serving the city of
Heihe
Heihe (; ; Russian: Хэйхэ) is a prefecture-level city of northern Heilongjiang province, China, located on the Russian border, on the south bank of the Amur (Heilong) River, across the river from Blagoveshchensk. At the 2020 census, 1 ...
in
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...
Province,
China. It is not far away from
Ignatyevo Airport
Ignatyevo Airport (russian: Аэропорт Игнатьево) is an international airport in Amur Oblast, Russia, located near the village of Ignatyevo north-west of Blagoveshchensk. The large airport services up to medium-sized airliners wi ...
in
Blagoveshchensk
Blagoveshchensk ( rus, Благове́щенск, p=bləgɐˈvʲeɕːɪnsk, meaning ''City of the Annunciation'') is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. It is located at the confluence of the Amur and the Zeya Rivers, o ...
,
Russia
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.
History
In March 2016, ''
China Daily
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Overview
''China Daily'' has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in China. T ...
'' reported that the airport had changed its name from simply Heihe Airport to Heihe Aihui Airport, reflecting the
district
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in which the city of
Heihe
Heihe (; ; Russian: Хэйхэ) is a prefecture-level city of northern Heilongjiang province, China, located on the Russian border, on the south bank of the Amur (Heilong) River, across the river from Blagoveshchensk. At the 2020 census, 1 ...
is located.
Airlines and destinations