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The Civil Aviation Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Transport jointly issued the “15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Civil Aviation”

Zhitongcaijing·08/07/2026 07:26:29
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The Zhitong Finance App learned that the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Transport recently jointly issued the “15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Civil Aviation”. According to the plan, during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, the civil aviation industry will make every effort to promote the construction of six major systems around the above goals. The plan is clear. By 2030, the civil aviation industry will take the lead in achieving world-class safety, service capabilities, and infrastructure. Technological innovation, green and low-carbon governance capabilities will achieve major breakthrough progress, serve the country's major strategies, promote regional economic and social development, and meet the beautiful air travel needs of the people.

The original text is as follows:

“Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Civil Aviation” issued

In order to earnestly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Transport recently jointly issued the “15th Five-Year Plan” for the development of civil aviation in accordance with the outline of the “15th Five-Year Plan” and the plan for building a strong transportation nation.

According to the plan, the “15th Five-Year Plan” period is a critical time to basically achieve socialist modernization, consolidate the foundation and develop comprehensive strength. It is a critical five years for continuing to write the chapter on building a strong transportation country and civil aviation. The Civil Aviation Administration earnestly implements the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and continues to promote the high-quality development of the civil aviation industry.

The plan emphasizes that during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, civil aviation will adhere to Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, earnestly implement the Fourth Plenary Session deployment, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, coordinate the two major domestic and international issues, focus on improving the modern integrated transportation system, anchor the strategic goals of first-class civil aviation, adhere to the overall tone of steady progress, adhere to the theme of promoting high-quality development, adhere to the direction of intelligence, greening and integration, and take safe development as the bottom line. Mainly improving quality and efficiency Line, with reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, promotes facility expansion, efficiency and service quality upgrading in an integrated manner, promotes the construction of a unified domestic market and a high level of international openness to the outside world, promotes independent innovation and industrial integration and development of civil aviation in an integrated manner, ensures effective quality improvement and reasonable volume growth in civil aviation, and ensures decisive progress in the construction of a safe, convenient, efficient, green and economical modern civil aviation system.

The plan is clear. By 2030, the civil aviation industry will take the lead in achieving world-class safety, service capabilities, and infrastructure. Technological innovation, green and low-carbon governance capabilities will achieve major breakthrough progress, serve the country's major strategies, promote regional economic and social development, and meet the beautiful air travel needs of the people.

According to the plan, during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, the civil aviation industry will make every effort to promote the construction of six major systems around the above goals. The first is to make every effort to build a solid and reliable aviation safety and security system. Firmly establish the concept of safety development, prevent and resolve major safety risks, curb the occurrence of major safety accidents, improve the effectiveness of safety supervision and safety guarantee capabilities, ensure the absolute safety of aviation operations, and ensure the absolute safety of people's lives.

Second, make every effort to build a high-quality and efficient air transport service system. Adhere to popularization and international development, promote smooth air transport accessibility, diversification, efficiency, fairness and inclusiveness, build a dynamic, high-quality and efficient air transport service system, and strongly support the expansion of domestic demand and a high level of openness of services.

The third is to make every effort to build an infrastructure system with systematic collaboration. Adhere to being moderately ahead of schedule and not being overly advanced, adhere to the direction of intelligence, greening and integration, insist on improving quality and inventory, putting equal emphasis on improving and increasing volume, promote infrastructure renewal and digital intelligence transformation, enhance the sustainability of safe operation, and take the lead in building first-class facilities.

Fourth, make every effort to establish an autonomous and controllable innovation support system. Adhere to demand leadership and problem orientation, promote the safe development of low-altitude civil aviation, accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of civil aviation and self-reliance in science and technology, promote the development of educational, scientific and technological talents in an integrated manner, and cultivate new quality productivity in civil aviation.

Fifth, make every effort to build a sustainable green development system. Guided by carbon neutrality, we will promote the safe and orderly replacement of fossil energy and the construction of an aviation carbon market in an integrated manner, strengthen scientific and technological innovation and industrial collaboration, improve the green governance system, jointly promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth of civil aviation, and solidly promote the green and low-carbon transformation of civil aviation.

The sixth is to make every effort to establish a standardized and orderly civil aviation governance system. Adhere to the combination of an effective market and a promising government, take the lead by further comprehensively deepening civil aviation reform, continue to expand opening-up and cooperation with the outside world, continuously enhance the soft power and influence of civil aviation, and ensure the steady and far-reaching development of civil aviation.

The plan requires upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership, strengthening coordination, giving full play to the role of the leading group for civil aviation planning and policy coordination, improving the development planning mechanism for implementing the annual plan, solidly advancing the implementation of the “15th Five-Year Plan” of civil aviation, promoting major strategic tasks, major engineering projects, and major policy initiatives in an integrated manner, and effectively implementing the goals and tasks.

This article was selected from the “Civil Aviation Administration of China” official website, Zhitong Finance Editor: Liu Jiayin.