"China's air logistics support capacity has been significantly improved. As of the end of October, the size of the industry's cargo aircraft fleet has increased to 254, and the airport's cargo facilities support capacity is about 31 million tons, of which the utilization rate of international terminal facilities is about 80%. The network layout has been gradually improved, and a domestic air cargo channel has been initially formed with the four world-class airport clusters of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao and Chengdu-ChongqingChina's cargo airlines connect 61 overseas countries and 142 overseas airports, including 42 countries that jointly build the 'Belt and Road'. Wang Weijun, Director of the Air Logistics Division of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at the first air logistics conference.
According to data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, as of the end of November this year, the civil aviation industry has completed a total of 661 cargo and mail transportation00,000 tons, and the scale of cargo and mail transportation recovered to 96 in the same period in 20199%。Among them, 411 domestic routes have completed cargo and mail transportation00,000 tons, recovering to 88 in the same period of 20199%；The volume of cargo and mail transportation completed on international routes was 25000,000 tons, reaching 113 in the same period in 20197%。
As an important part of the modern logistics system, aviation logistics has played a key role in promoting the extension and improvement of the industrial chain. At the same time, the development of aviation logistics will also promote the development of related industries and provide new impetus for economic transformation and upgrading.
In order to accelerate the development of the air logistics industry, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Air Logistics" in February 2022, changing the previous policy orientation of focusing on supporting passenger transport and implementing the development strategy of "paying equal attention to passengers and cargo".
It is worth noting that with the rapid development of the Internet, the ability to guarantee the timeliness of logistics has been rapidly improved, but compared with the air passenger industry, the upstream and downstream industrial chain of air cargo logistics information technology means are still very lagging behind, and the air cargo industry shows a trend of extending to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, accelerating the development of informatization, and integrating with the express delivery industry.
To unleash the potential of the air logistics industry, international cooperation needs to be deepened. Pan Yixin, executive vice president of the China Air Transport Association, said that on the one hand, the China Aviation Association has strengthened cooperation with the "Belt and Road" countries in various fields of civil aviation, promoted the development of the airport economy based on air logistics, promoted the exchange of personnel and materials between Asian and European countries, and promoted the deepening of cooperation with airlines in the fields of air logistics and business standards with the airlines of the "Belt and Road" countries. On the other hand, the China Aviation Association took the opportunity of building a China-ASEAN civil aviation cooperation and exchange platform to help Guangxi accelerate the construction of an international channel for ASEAN.
The next step will be to accelerate the cultivation of competitive business entities, support traditional freight companies such as Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines to become bigger and stronger, accelerate transformation and development, extend to both ends of the air logistics chain, and support express delivery, cross-border e-commerce and other enterprises to strengthen air cargo capacity building. Wang Weijun said.
In addition, the aviation logistics industry has accelerated the improvement of the level of informatization. "We will accelerate the improvement of the construction of a smart freight system, support the construction of a logistics information platform with a hub airport as the core, and promote the interconnection and interoperability of information of different business entities. Wang Weijun said.
In line with the overall development trend of international air logistics, China Eastern Airlines Logistics attaches great importance to cultivating and developing the fresh cold chain market, and builds fresh port business in the fresh cold chain. Wang Jianmin, deputy general manager of China Eastern Air Logistics Co., Ltd., said. (Economic ** reporter Cui Guoqiang).