A new Boeing 737 plane landed Monday at the Pudong International Airport in this east China's financial hub. The plane is the first in a roll of 11 similar flying machines that China Eastern Airlines (CEA) planned to buy.

The newly purchased plane is a new model of Boeing-737, which has 134 seats, divided into first and economy classes.

The other 10 planes will reach China from September this year to June 2003.

Local sources say that the plane will fly to Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, after short stay in Pudong to serve in the Shanxi Branch of CEA.

( People's Daily July 2, 2002)