Aviation
China's air transport industry will gradually enter the stage of rapid growth.
China's air transport industry will gradually enter the stage of rapid growth.
According to the Beijing News and the public telivision complicates, the Chinese government projects to send a motorized contraption on the Moon from 2012.
The Airbus A380, the biggest plane of passengers of the world, landed Monday in the airport of Zhuhai to participate in the 7th edition of the international aeronautic lounge of China.
The Center of launching of satellites of Jiuquan, since which the third inhabited space ship of the Shenzhou-7 country must take off, is free open to all Chinese and foreign tourists, declared Wednesday an official of the center.
China has the ambition to see its aerospace technologies developing itself to the world rank, thanks to the establishment of an aerospace industry completes before 2015, announced Friday the Society of the Technologies and aerospace Sciences of China (STSAC).
Airport business has a capital-intensive business infrastucture, and is characterized by economic features such as pre-public products, exterior and regional monopoly. Currently, China's airports are suffering losses. In 2002, 80 percent of the 143 airports in China suffered losses. Considering the three major indices of airport operation-passenger throughput, cargo and posts throughput, and number of take-offs and leadings, domestic airports (single or as a whole) are still far behind well-known international airports.
Through accurate data and full elaboration, it describes the structure of China's Civil Aviation Transportation market and features of the demand-supply relationship from various angles.
Globalization is altering inernational business prctices, and requiring manufacturers to operate at maximum efficiency. Today's trading environment is characterized by the following aspects: complex sourcing strategies for raw materials and components, regional even global assembly plants are needed for scale manufacturing, and the application of flexible just-in-time inventory management to deliver finished products to various markets in time. To remain competitive, manufacturing and service companies in China must turn to the value-added sercices of the global integrated air express companies. Therefore, demand for integrated air express services is rising rapidly.
From January to August, 2005, the Total Tonne Kilometer for air transport is 16.646 billion, up 11% compared with the same period of 2004. The Total Passenger Traffic is 89.5172 million persons, up 10% compared with the same period last year. The Total Passenger Kilometer is 131.77409 billion, up 10.5% compared with the same period last year, the Total Freight Tones Carried is 1.9017 million, up 13% as compared with the same period of last year, and the Total Freight Tonnes Kilometer is 4.92079 billion, up 13.2% compared with the same period last year. The total flying hours is 1.76051 million, up 12.2% compared with the same period last year.