China Southern flies 3,000 to workplaces around the country

China Southern Airlines, the largest airline by fleet size in Asia, had operated 20 chartered flights by Wednesday to help 3,000 people from registered poverty-stricken families travel to their work places.

The flights included 12 from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with 2,000 passengers on board and five from Northeast China's Heilongjiang province with 942 passengers.

The workers on board the 20 flights departed from places such Hotan and Kashgar in the Xinjiang, Hailun in Heilongjiang province and Guyuan in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region.

Their destinations included Nanning in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, and in East China, Jinan and Qingdao in Shandong province and Xiamen and Fuzhou in Fujian province.

By Tuesday, China Southern had resumed more than 6,300 flights and operated 136 back-to-work chartered flights amid the novel coronavirus epidemic.