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ARTICLE · 28 JUNE 2016

State Council Issues Guideline To Boost General Aviation Industry

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Following a surge of investment in China's general aviation sector around 2013, the sector has experienced down-turns due to the overall slowing of the economy in 2015.

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Following a surge of investment in China's general aviation sector around 2013, the sector has experienced down-turns due to the overall slowing of the economy in 2015.  On May 17, 2016, the General Office of the State Council announced a guideline to boost China's general aviation ("GA")1 industry, named the Guiding Opinions to Promote the Development of the General Aviation Industry (Guo Ban Fa [2016] No. 38) ("Guideline").  The Guideline marks the first time the state council, the highest administrative organ, has made plans to boost the development of China's GA industry2.

The Guideline describes the status of China's GA industry as of 2015 stating, "the scale of the GA industry was small, the infrastructure construction remained comparatively backward, the reform of the administration of low-altitude airspace progressed slowly, the GA industry lack the capability of independent R&D and manufacture, and there was still a big gap between the weak services and the

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