China will drop quarantine requirements for international travelers starting January 8, 2023. The government also announced a host of other travel-easing measures. The changes effectively end China’s three-year period of...
China Real Time’s Colum Murphy reports that China’s civil aviation authorities are...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The New York Times’ Keith Bradsher reports that high-speed rail has, “without a doubt,...
China’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) has identified infrastructure development as essential for maintaining economic growth, and under it local governments will be footing the bill for airport renovations, expansions...
Chinese state media reports the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) unveiled a plan that would boost civil aircraft manufacturing. This comes amid China’s attempts to build jet engines for both commercial and...
As China attempts to build its own jet engine for military and commercial use, China has unveiled new orders for its passenger jet at the country’s main airshow in Zhuhai, from Reuters: The C919 is designed to challenge Airbus...
Reuters interviews Wang Zhenghua, the owner of China’s biggest private budget carriers, and reports on his philosophy for surviving in a state-dominated sector: “You have to take it a bit slowly, rather than being too...
China Real Time blog interviews James Fallows about his new book China Airborne and about the aviation industry in China: You highlight the dramatic improvement of China’s airlines as one area of particular success. Are there...
Due to the delays of the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” Jets, China Eastern Airlines has substituted the 787 Dreamliners with 737s at a significantly reduced price. From The Wall Street Journal: China Eastern reached an...
China Daily reports that more than 200 pilots have falsified their work experience: The results of investigations showed that in 2008-2009, airlines desperate for staff were hiring pilots whose resumes had been faked, the...
The Christian Science Monitor follows up on Tuesday’s crash of a Henan Airlines flight: The plane crash in China that killed 42 people late Tuesday night was a rare blot on the country’s aviation safety copybook, say...
Bloomberg reports on the ways China is helping to boost the global airline and aircraft manufacturing industries: Deals backed by Chinese institutions in the last year include Bank of China BOC Aviation’s sale-lease-back of...
China’s first private airline isn’t faring too well. From AP: Okay Airways has been locked in a messy dispute with its controlling shareholder. News reports this week said the Civil Aviation Administration of China...
From China Daily: Boeing said on Tuesday that China will require 3,400 new airplanes worth about $340 billion over the next 20 years, raising its forecast for the Asian giant’s booming aviation arena. Previously, the plane maker had projected China would need 2,800 airplanes for the next two decades. “China domestic frequencies have increased more […]
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