CCTV News: On January 9, at the 2025 National Civil Aviation Work Conference, Song Zhiyong, Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, introduced that at present, my country has become the country with the largest aviation population in the world, and is expected to complete passenger transport volume of 780 million in 2025.
Song Zhiyong said that my country's national income has steadily increased and the number of statutory holidays has increased, and passengers' enthusiasm for air travel has continued to increase. At the same time, as the scope of unilateral visa-free countries is further expanded and the transit visa-free policy is comprehensively relaxed and optimized, international personnel exchanges will also be more convenient.
Song Zhiyong, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said that in 2025, it is expected to complete a total transportation turnover of 161 billion tons and kilometers, a passenger transport of 780 million passengers, and a cargo and mail transport of 9.5 million tons, and the industry's profit level should be further improved.
Song Zhiyong said that in the next step, we will continue to optimize the quality of domestic air express lines, orderly promote free transfers between different airlines, and improve the stickiness of high-frequency air passengers. Focus on "inbound travel, low-altitude travel, study tour, parent-child travel, and silver-haired travel" to enrich the supply of aviation products. Accelerate the recovery of international flights and strive to restore the number of international flights to more than 90% by 2025.
Song Zhiyong, Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, emphasized that air transportation price behavior should be standardized in key periods and special circumstances, strengthen price and fee supervision, and maintain price order in the air transportation market. Guide different types of aviation enterprises to deepen their efforts in segmented markets based on differentiated functional positioning, and achieve complementary advantages and staggered development.
