AviatDataYinchuan Hedong International Airport INC / ZLIC
Yinchuan, Ningxia · China · Western Airport Group Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司; established 30 July 2004, wholly state-owned subsidiary of Xi'an-headquartered Western Airport Group Co., Ltd., ultimately under Shaanxi provincial SASAC; also manages Zhongwei Shapotou and Guyuan Liupanshan airports and administers Yinchuan Yueyahu general-aviation airport)
9.9Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1
ICAO / IATAZLIC / INC
OperatorWestern Airport Group Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司; established 30 July 2004, wholly state-owned subsidiary of Xi'an-headquartered Western Airport Group Co., Ltd., ultimately under Shaanxi provincial SASAC; also manages Zhongwei Shapotou and Guyuan Liupanshan airports and administers Yinchuan Yueyahu general-aviation airport)
Coordinates38.3217°N, 106.3925°E
Elevation3,744 ft · 1,141 m
Time zoneCST (UTC+8, no DST)
Passengers / yr9,860,514 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded—
AIP referenceZLIC — China AIP AD 2.ZLIC (CAAC eAIP, eaip.caac.gov.cn; access-restricted, not an open public mirror)
Operating hoursH24 - no published curfew; ATS/Tower operate round-the-clock for domestic traffic. Customs, immigration and border inspection are staffed on published schedules for international/regional flights through the Terminal 2 international hall; the port was granted aviation-port visa-on-arrival authority for foreign nationals in June 2013 (operational from 1 January 2014), reportedly the third such port in Northwest China.
TerminalsTwo terminals currently active. T3 (approx. 82,000 sqm, opened 27 December 2016) is the primary domestic terminal, built for 16 million annual passengers and 100,000 tonnes of cargo. T2 (approx. 32,800 sqm, originally opened June 2008) reopened on 8 February 2018 as the dedicated international/regional terminal, with departure/arrival border-inspection channels, customs and quarantine checkpoints. T1 (approx. 14,300 sqm), the original 1997 terminal and the airport's international hall until T2's Feb 2018 reopening, has been closed/decommissioned since.
Runways (1)
- 03/21 · 3,600 m / 11,811 ft · 45 m wide · Concrete · ILS ILS CAT I
Airport contact
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region's principal air gateway and the region's first international civil airport, opened 6 September 1997 and granted aviation-port visa-issuing authority in June 2013 (operational from 1 January 2014). China Eastern Airlines maintains an operational base and carries a large share of traffic; Loong Air also maintains a base here, with Xiamen Airlines and China Southern operating significant schedules. International/regional service is thin relative to the airport's overwhelmingly domestic 9.86 million 2025 passengers (+9.8% YoY; 2024 was 8.98 million) but expanding: Bangkok and Vientiane routes (via Guiyang, operated by 9 Air) launched 10-11 May 2025, and a Kuala Lumpur service (via Guiyang, also 9 Air) followed that September, alongside historic seasonal links to Osaka, Nagoya and Seoul. INC also serves as a designated en-route alternate for Lanzhou Zhongchuan and Xi'an Xianyang.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司)
Airport operator's own Ground Service Branch (地面服务分公司), a registered entity at Yinchuan Hedong Airport, Lingwu City since 27 Aug 2018, provides passenger, ramp and turnaround handling for carriers operating at Yinchuan Hedong. Contact line ••• (Ground Service Branch office, Comprehensive Security-Inspection Building, 4th floor, room C407) recurs consistently across recruitment postings (WeChat, Sohu, NetEase, The Paper) and business-directory listings — corroborated, though not confirmed as a municipal-government-published line as the draft stated.
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Aircraft fuel
Available
China Aviation Oil Co., Ltd. Ningxia Branch (中国航空油料有限责任公司宁夏分公司)
Into-plane jet fuel supplier operating the airport's fuel depot (银川河东机场油库) at Yinchuan Hedong. Corroborated via a Lingwu City Approval Service Bureau environmental-impact notice (18 Sep 2019) for the depot's capacity-expansion project and a 2022 project-completion/verification report, both naming China Aviation Oil Co., Ltd. Ningxia Branch as operator; company registered 21 Nov 2008 at the airport site. A Yinchuan municipal government response additionally cites current depot capacity as 2,012 tonnes across 14 tanks.
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Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
De-icing
Seasonal
Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司)
Genuinely needed: Yinchuan sits in Ningxia's cold semi-arid continental climate with winter snowfall. Confirmed via three separate sources: a 2024 fixed-asset tender for a de-icing-liquid multi-function spray truck (除冰液多功能撒布车) awarded to the airport company; a CAAC Northwest regional supervision report describing six rounds of runway/taxiway de-icing and snow-clearing during a January 2025 storm; and a 2017 storm report listing the airport's winter fleet as 5 snow blowers, 3 sweepers, 2 skid-steer loaders and 1 de-icing spray vehicle.
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Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Part-145 line maintenance
Unconfirmed
China Eastern Airlines (self-handled)
China Eastern Airlines maintains an overnight operating base (基地) at Yinchuan Hedong for its based aircraft, implying in-house transit/daily-check and defect-rectification capability for its own fleet at the field — corroborated by this airport's own verified record, which also notes Loong Air maintains a base here. In-house, China Eastern Airlines. No separate third-party line-maintenance contractor was identified, and the scope of on-site capability is not independently confirmed.
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Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Available
Ningxia Aviation Food Co., Ltd. (宁夏航空食品有限公司)
Name correction from draft: the entity operating in-flight catering at Yinchuan Hedong is Ningxia Aviation Food Co., Ltd. (宁夏航空食品有限公司, established 2002), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xi'an International Airport Food Co., Ltd. (established 1997, Western Airport Group's flight-kitchen operator) — not a company registered under the name 'Xi'an International Airport Food Co., Ltd. Ningxia Company' as drafted. Parent company describes a footprint 'centred on Xi'an, with Yinchuan and Xining as the two wings,' delivered through this dedicated Ningxia subsidiary; group serves 40+ domestic and international carriers.
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Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft cleaning
Available
Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司)
Aircraft cabin and ramp cleaning is bundled into the Ground Service Branch's turnaround handling rather than contracted to a separate specialist; not separately itemised in public sources, so treated as unconfirmed for standalone scope.
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Ground support equipment
Available
Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司)
Airport company owns and operates ramp GSE plus a dedicated winter-ops fleet (de-icing fluid spray trucks, blast-blowers, snow sweepers) used for turnarounds and airfield clearance, per airport winter-operations reporting.
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Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Cargo handling
Available
Ningxia Airport Co., Ltd. (西部机场集团宁夏机场有限公司)
Airport company's non-aviation business line covers air-cargo agency/freight handling; cargo enquiry lines ••• / ••• as listed in local business directories, not. Correction: the draft's claim of direct international freight-capable routes to Dubai, Singapore, Taipei, Osaka and Kuala Lumpur does not match this airport's verified route list (Bangkok/Vientiane/Kuala Lumpur via Guiyang on 9 Air, plus historic seasonal Osaka/Nagoya/Seoul links) and has been dropped as unsupported; INC's scheduled international network is thin and no dedicated freighter service is documented.
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Verified 3 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aviation security
Unconfirmed
Ningxia Airport Public Security Bureau (宁夏机场公安局)
Aviation security screening and guarding at Yinchuan Hedong is coordinated jointly by the CAAC Northwest Regional Administration's Ningxia Supervisory Bureau, the Ningxia Airport Public Security Bureau, and the airport company, per CAAC regional-office reporting on joint security-duty operations; a separately named screening contractor is not published, so operational detail is unconfirmed.
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Passenger & crew transport
Available
Ningxia Tianbao Jiaoyun Group Co., Ltd. (宁夏天豹交运集团有限公司)
Runs on-call car/shuttle pickup between Yinchuan city and Hedong Airport (7-seat vehicles booked via WeChat); the airport itself separately operates scheduled shuttle-bus lines from the terminal to the city centre and to Wuzhong. Could not be (search access limited); retained per the drafting instruction not to drop a plausible provider absent contrary evidence.
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Flight support
Not listed
Hotel & travel
Unconfirmed
Xigang Aviation Hotel, Yinchuan Airport (西港航空饭店/西港航空酒店 银川机场店)
Confirmed as a hotel operated by Western Airport Group (西部机场集团) itself — the airport's parent operator — sited roughly 300m southwest of Hedong Airport (233 rooms, approx. 22,346.5 sqm); it is the terminus of the airport's shuttle-bus Line 1 (银川机场-长城路-清和街-鼓楼-中山街-银川西港航空酒店, running 06:30-18:00). No specific airline crew-accommodation contract is publicly documented, so treated as unconfirmed for aviation-crew use.
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