Hong Kong Airlines and Hainan Airlines operated lounges for VA plat/gold members

"Velocity Silver, Gold and Platinum members will be able to access priority check-in, priority boarding and additional baggage allowances. Velocity Gold and Platinum members will also be able to access eligible Hong Kong Airlines and Hainan Airlines operated lounges. "

HU has its own lounges at Beijing, Urumqi, Xi'an, Haikou and Guangzhou.

HX has its only lounge at HKG.

That is great news, I'll check out the Urumqi lounge on Monday morning with this news.

Despite it not being official, I was still able to get into the Hainan lounge at Urumqi. There are actually two lounges in their domestic Terminal 2 location, either side of the security checkpoint. One lounge, to the right of Security at Gate 11, featured a large seating area for a few dozen people and small snack and drinks facility. The second lounge, to the left of Security at Gate 12, features a formal dining area for 44 people, a small tv nook, 3 or 4 business area seats and 12 lounge seats. The lounge only opened at 6am, with meals not available until 6:30 once they were delivered in airline carts from a distant kitchen. The food on offer had a local islamic theme, with lamb and sweet carrot & pilaf rice. There was plenty of staff on hand despite being small loungues, think regional Australian airport size, and they were keen and eager to serve.

May I ask does lounge access only applicable for flights to/from Australia for Hainan and Hong Kong Airlines?