The government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Yunnan subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines to launch a Yinchuan-Kunming-Dubai service on March 27, 2011.

Currently passengers flying to Kunming from Yinchuan have to transfer at Chengdu. The new service marks the first non-stop route between Yinchuan and Kunming.

The new service will be operated twice a week, and the travel time will be seven hours.