CAAC defends airport plans
By Yang Jian |
July 26, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA is considering "future development space" for its plan to build 82 new airports by 2015 even though over 70 percent of domestic airports lost money last year, the chief operator of the country's civil aviation industry said yesterday in response to questions regarding overcapacity at the airports.
Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said last Friday that China would build the new airports as well as revamp 101 others in the next three years to meet rising air travel demand.
The plan soon drew flak, with analysts suggesting that the additional airports were not needed because about 130 of the country's 182 airports lost more than 2 billion yuan (US$313 million) last year.
"We should not merely see airport profits but take into account that an airport can largely boost the economy of the whole region," Li said yesterday.
For instance, the newly built Mohe Airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province brought over 300 million yuan to the local economy from tourism and logistics, while the operational cost of the airport was only less than 20 million yuan annually, he revealed.
An airport can produce output eight times its cost for the local economy, Li Yong, deputy finance minister, estimated, adding the government will invest 64.1 billion yuan in the current Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for airport and facility construction, double the amount for the previous five years.
Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said last Friday that China would build the new airports as well as revamp 101 others in the next three years to meet rising air travel demand.
The plan soon drew flak, with analysts suggesting that the additional airports were not needed because about 130 of the country's 182 airports lost more than 2 billion yuan (US$313 million) last year.
"We should not merely see airport profits but take into account that an airport can largely boost the economy of the whole region," Li said yesterday.
For instance, the newly built Mohe Airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province brought over 300 million yuan to the local economy from tourism and logistics, while the operational cost of the airport was only less than 20 million yuan annually, he revealed.
An airport can produce output eight times its cost for the local economy, Li Yong, deputy finance minister, estimated, adding the government will invest 64.1 billion yuan in the current Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for airport and facility construction, double the amount for the previous five years.
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