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hina’s civil aviation sector maintains steady growth in H1
BEIJING, Aug. 26, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – China’s civil aviation sector
expanded at a steady rate in the first half of the year.
Total air transport turnover reached 58.4 billion tonne-km in H1, up 13
percent year on year, a faster growth than the 12.5-percent increase in
turnover for 2017, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
A total of 296.6 million passenger trips were made during H1, up 12.4
percent year on year, compared with a 13-percent increase last year. Cargo
turnover rose 6.4 percent year-on-year to 3.6 million tonnes.
China has the world’s second largest aviation market, after the United
States. The country aims to realize 142 billion tonne-km of air transport
turnover by 2020, with passenger trips to reach 720 million a year.
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