The country's aviation sector will continue to seek improvement in airport on-time performance and boost efforts to provide higher quality services, according to China's civil aviation regulator on Monday.

The Guangdong branch of China Eastern Airlines Co Ltd announced on Jan 1 that regular international flights between Guangzhou and Yangon, Myanmar will be available from Jan 28.

Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region will continue to enhance its railroad, flight and highway network in 2020, according to the ongoing third session of the 11th People's Congress of the region.

Air China, the country's leading carrier, will add flights during the world's largest annual human migration -- the Spring Festival travel rush -- when the number of people flying is expected to surge by 8.4 percent year-on-year.

Three new direct air routes were opened on Monday linking northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an and Istanbul, Budapest and Nursultan respectively, according to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport.

Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in East China's Zhejiang province handled more than 40 million passengers in 2019, the airport said Monday.

The annual passenger throughput of civil aviation in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region exceeded 5.72 million in 2019, up 7.57 percent year on year, according to the Tibet branch of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) Tuesday.

SF Airlines has become China's largest cargo airline and created a global air cargo service network with 65 destinations, said the airline Tuesday.

A new direct air route opened on Friday, linking Southwest China's Chongqing municipality with Budapest, capital of Hungary.

A direct flight between Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, and Osaka, Japan, began operating on Sunday, with the passenger load factor reaching 90 percent, according to the carrier 9Air.