UKTI and The British Aviation Group hosted a CAAC delegation to the UK, on Tuesday 8 June 2010 the CAAC delegates gave an overview on their latest airport development plans in the current economic climate in China and also covered emergency rescue and aviation fuel.

CAAC delegation consisted of:

DIAO Yonghai - Deputy Director General Airport Dept, CAAC
ZHANG Rui - Deputy Director General Affairs Division, Airport Dept, CAAC
CAO Xian - Consultant/Researcher Safety Division, Airport Dept, CAAC
ZHAO Hongyuan - Deputy Consultant/Researcher, Standard Division, CAAC
GONG Feng - Deputy General Manager, China National Aviation Fuel Group Corp
XING Dongfang - Deputy General Manager, Hebei Airport Management Group
HE Xiongping - Director Department of Safety and Quality, Changsha Huanghua International Airport
HU Junhua - Deputy General Manager Guangxi Airport Management Group
NIE Yachun - Deputy General Manager, Xinjiang Airport Group
YANG Yubiao - General Manger, Yantai International Airport Group
ZENG Yong - Deputy General Manager, Sichuan Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport
A provisional outline of the morning programme is shown below.

10:00      Registration & Coffee
10:30      Welcome and introduction 
10:40      China’s current airport development plans Mr DIAO Yonghai, Deputy Director General, Airport Dept, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)  
11:30     Aviation fuel -Mr GONG Feng, Deputy General Manager, China National Aviation Fuel Group  Corp
11:40     Emergency rescue - Mr HE Xiongping, Director, Department of Safety and Quality, Changsha Huanghua International Airport, Hunan Airport Management Group  
11:50     Q&A panel
12:00     Networking Lunch
13:00     End of Event

There are 160 commercial airports in China (exclusive of Hong Kong and Macao) providing 152 regular flights. In addition, there are 71 airports with general aviation certificates, and 319 airports that can accommodate temporary take-off/ landing for general aviation. In early January 2008, the State Council approved the China Civil Airport Outline (2020). As per the plan, there will be 244 airports operating in China by 2020, including 13 airports with annual passenger capacity over
30m, and 6 airports for 20m-30m, and 10 airports for 10m-20m.

If you have any queries or would like to get in touch with any of the delegation please send these to Debbie Shi. 

UKTI Beijing
Ms Debbie Shi
Senior Trade & Investment Officer
Transport (Railways, Airport, Port)
UK Trade and Investment
British Embassy Beijing
11 Guang Hua Lu, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100600, P. R. China
Tel: +86 (0) 10 5192 4294
Email: Debbie.Shi@fco.gov.uk

Short presentations were given, please see them below.

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Please note that the documents “China Existing Airports (147) & Future Plan (97 new airports)” and the presentation by "DIAO Yonghai Deputy Director General Airport Dept CAAC", are in Chinese language only.