Chinese owned airline companies are expanding their services by  opening new air routes from several provinces in China to Sihanoukville where there is a surge in investments,  mostly  by Chinese owned entities.
Hainan Airline had  earlier this week launched its  three times a week service from Haikou,  the capital of Hainan province to Sihanoukville, using a Boeing 737-800. The flights are  on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a Bangkok-based news online outlet reported on Friday.
Lanmei Airline based in Phnom Penh, also launched its three flights a week service from Sihanoukville to Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province on 3rd of  July, while a three times a week service to Jinghong in Yunnan province is slated to begin on 2 August.
In addition,  a weekly flight from Sihanoukville to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province and a four times a week  flight serving Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province began on 15 July.
In late June, the airline had launched direct flights from Siem Reap to Datong in Shanxi province, with a flight every Friday.
There are 181 flights per week connecting Cambodia and China, according to the Ministry of Tourism and the new flights will further boost the influx of tourists from China, already Cambodia’s biggest tourism market.