All Nippon Airways Co.,Ltd., or ANA, the leading air carrier in Japan, has announced recently that it will open two brand-new international routes linking Tokyo and Osaka of Japan and Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, when it initiates its summer schedule this year on March 28.

Four flights will be available on the Narita-Hangzhou route each week while three on the Kansai-Hangzhou route, ANA said.

ANA elaborated its reasons on its landing in Hangzhou at its website, saying that Hangzhou is the one of the Chinese cities visited most frequently by Japanese after Shanghai and Beijing, that Hangzhou is a transport hub in the Yangtze River Delta region and a famous scenic spot and that Hangzhou is a high-demanding trade market where there are quite a number of world-famous corporations.

Among the foreigners residing longtime in Hangzhou, more than 40 percent are Japanese. 

2004/01/09
Source: Xinhuanet