The photos above are provided by the Kenya Tourism Board and Hao Xiaotian.

The flight, CZ6043/CZ6044, will be operated every Wednesday and Sunday by Airbus A330. A one-way trip will take 11.5 hours, and a round trip about 24 hours. The flight CZ 6043 departs from Changsha at 0:50, and arrive in Nairobi at 7:30 local time; and, CZ6044 departs from Nairobi at 12:50, and arrive in Changsha at 6:05 Beijing time.

Kenya, a relatively economically developed country in sub-Sahara Africa, is a key fulcrum of the national “Belt and Road” Initiative. Its capital city, Nairobi, is the economic and media center of East Africa. It is where the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) headquarters are based. It is the most developed, fashionable, and modernized city in Africa.

The Changsha-Nairobi flights will not only connect the two cities, but also the Yangtze Economic Belt and Arica. Passengers can transfer to Addis Ababa, Johannesburg, Dar-es-Salaam, Lusaka, Lagos, and other African major cities.