The Air Astana airline is to resume flights along the Astana-Beijing route three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays) starting from March 25.

The national carrier also plans to increase the number of Almaty-Beijing flights from one to five flights per week starting from February 13 to seven flights per week during the later spring-summer period.

For the first time since the introduction of travel restrictions in March 2020, China has opened its borders to foreign tourists. As a result, arriving travelers will no longer need to undergo quarantine, but they will still need a negative PCR test at the entrance to the country, made no earlier than 48 hours before the trip.

More flights between Kazakhstan and China will help speed up the development of investment, tourism, cultural, and business cooperation between the two countries and contributes to the