A Yun-5 aircraft takes off at a special airport for locust control near the mouth of the Yellow River in Dongying, east China's Shandong Province, June 17. China's first airport for locust control started operation on Tuesday, when two planes took off and sprayed locust insecticide, marking the beginning of an annual fight against the locust plague. The airport has a concrete runway and parking lot totaling about 40,000 square meters.
(Xinhua News Agency June 19, 2003)
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