ChinaDaily
China plans to approve more low-altitude flight zones, with five regions,
including Beijing and Lanzhou, having submitted proposals, Shanghai
Securities News reported Monday.
The State Council, China's cabinet, and the
Central Military Commission last November jointly issued a policy report saying
that China will strengthen the capacity of the Guangzhou and Shenyang
low-altitude flight zones before 2011.Changchun and Guangzhou were the first
cities getting approval to carry out low-altitude flight zone reform.
"The Air Force is doing research on
the standards of the categories for low-altitude airspace, accessing criteria
and regulations. It is expected the reform of low-altitude airspace regulations
will come out at the national level next year, if everything goes
smoothly," an unnamed source from the Air Force told the newspaper.
In the meantime, the Civil Aviation
Administration of China (CAAC) has begun training sessions for general aviation
industry. General aviation flights refer to all flights other than military and
scheduled airline or regular cargo flights, private and commercial.
A temporary regulation to subsidize the
general aviation industry is expected to take effect within this year. The
subsidies will favor aviation enterprises that produce social benefits such as
rescue flights, the newspaper reported.
China's
civil aviation industry will attract investments totaling 1.5 trillion yuan
($230 million) in five years, according to the data of CAAC.
