Six new Chinese aviation groups are expected to be born in the next
half year as part of the reform of China's civil aviation industry
and the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC),
said Yang Yuanyuan, director of the CAAC.
Addressing a CAAC senior officials meeting Thursday morning in
Beijing, Yang said that this was a substantial step toward the
separation of state enterprises and a government department.
The State Council had approved the proposal of establishing
AirChina Group and China Aviation Fuel Group, said Yang. The other
proposals -- establishing China Eastern Airlines (Group), China
Southern Airlines (Group), China Civil Aviation Information (Group)
and China Aviation Supplies Import and Export (Group) -- had been
formally submitted to the State Council for approval.
In
addition, the plan to set up an aviation police force was about to
be submitted to the State Council for ratification. Meanwhile, the
CAAC and other relevant state ministries were working on the reform
of airport management and public security.
Experts hold that the restructuring of China's aviation industry
will improve industrial management and enhance aircraft utilization
and the sharing of resources. It will also help reduce operation
costs and increase profits, so as to improve the competitiveness of
China's civil aviation industry in the face of international
competition, they claim.
(Xinhua News
Agency July 25, 2002)