Flights upped from Zhuhai to historic, enticing Jinan

A non-stop China Southern Airlines flight from Zhuhai to the capital of Shandong Province, Jinan, will debut on Sunday Oct 29, and is scheduled Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Flight CZ3729 takes off from Zhuhai at 8:25 pm and lands in Changsha of Hunan Province, en route eventually to Jinan at 12:55 am. Return-Flight CZ3730 departs at 1:55 pm with an ETA of 6:30 pm.

As of Oct 29, the number of flights on 10 routes from Zhuhai will be increased. The destinations are Zhengzhou in Henan, Wuhan in Hubei, Nanchang in Jiangxi, Xi'an in Shaanxi, Kunming in Yunnan, Guiyang in Guizhou, Chongqing Municipality, Dalian in Liaoning, Harbin in Heilongjiang, and Haikou in Hainan provinces.

Also, effective that Sunday will be a nonstop flight from Zhuhai to Xi'an, which will no longer lay over in Wuhan.

The adjustments have been made in response to the travel demands and to make trips easier and more convenient, said a company manger.

China Southern Airlines [Photo courtesy Zhuhai Daily]

Historic Jinan is located south of the Yellow River in northwestern Shandong with famous Mount Tai on its south side. The 2,700-year-old city is the birthplace of Longshan Culture, also referred as Black Pottery Culture, which stood out in late Neolithic cultures from about 3000 to 1900 bce.

Among the first-batch Top Tourist Cities of China, Jinan has various springs as its most distinctive calling card, thus its namesake "City of Springs." Popular attractions include Spouting Spring, Daming Lake, Furong (Water Lily) Street, Black Tiger Spring, Red Leaves Valley, and Thousand-Buddha Mt (Qianfo Shan) which contains the ruins of Emperor Shun, a legendary leader of China living before 2000 bce.

Popular cultural sites include Great Wall of Qi -- the oldest original section of the Great Wall in China; Four-Gate Pagoda at Shentong Temple in Liubu Town erected in the Sui Dynasty (581-618 ce); and colored Arhat sculptures in Lingyan Temple as characteristic Song Dynasty (960-1279 ce) artwork.