The year's passenger throughput of Ordos airport -- located in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region's Ordos city -- hit a new record with 2,695,925 visitors in 2019, a jump of 8.9 percent on 2018, according to local media reports.

The year's cargo and mail volumes at Ordos airport in 2019 reached 10,046.6 tons, an increase of 0.6 percent compared with 2018.

Officials said that last year the airport made great efforts to expand in the aviation market, optimizing its flight timetables and routes. It worked on a development mode, relying on key transit cities to create special transit products and a multi shift and high-density route network layout.

Officials said that during the peak season, the passenger throughput of Ordos airport maintained a high growth trend. In the year to Nov 23, the passenger throughput had exceeded that for the previous entire year.

They said that last year the airport continuously worked on cooperation with various airlines and optimized its business model.

It successively added Ningbo, Lianyungang, Luoyang and other destination cities and continued to strengthen its core routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Zhengzhou.

Last year Ordos airport operated 50 routes, cooperated with 13 airlines and had 60 navigable cities, while its transit accessibility was greatly enhanced.

Through the introduction of special tourism products, it successively added routes to Siem Reap in Cambodia and Yekaterinburg in Russia in 2019, helping take the international passenger throughput to more than 69,000.