CHINA PLANS TO HAVE 2,800 GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORTS BY 2020
March 8th, 2015
All of China’s 2,800 counties should have their own general aviation (GA) airport under the country’s next and 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), Li Jiaxiang, the head of China’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAA), at an Aviation Industry Corporation of China event staged on March 11. There currently are only 78 GA airports in the country, as their expansion has been impeded mainly by a defence-related ban on low-altitude aviation.Li did not release further details, and as yet no detailed blue print has been released, but his prediction that Chinese Yuan ...
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