Retail giant Amazon has started direct cargo flights from America to Zhengzhou, the capital of central China's Henan Province.

The planes, carrying nearly 1,000 different kinds of products including food, clothes and household appliances ordered by Chinese customers, flew out of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles into the Chinese transportation hub.

Fruits ordered by Chinese customers. /Ccaonline.cn Photo

Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport offers good logistics services to cross-border e-commerce platforms, according to sources at Amazon's logistics services provider, WherExpress.

The airport provides swift customs clearance and imports will now be distributed to consumers nationwide.

Zhengzhou's airport posted 275,000 tonnes of throughput of imported cargo in 2016, up 20.93% year on year. This included fruit, aquatic products, meat and cattle from Australia.