General aviation flights have exploded. Low-altitude tourism flights account for more than half of the country. General aviation companies have poured in. General aviation aircraft are manufactured in Hainan... At present, the spotlight of general aviation is shining on Hainan.
This stems from an important reform breakthrough.
In recent years, Hainan has promoted the reform of low-altitude airspacemanagement with "air-ground networking", established my country's first low-altitude flight service guarantee system covering the provinces, built ground airport transportation "county-county, networked", and realized that general aviation flights can truly fly. , Opened the door for the development of the general aviation industry.
The rapid rise of the general aviation industry in Hainan
Low-altitude tourist flights account for more than half of the country's passenger capacity
"In Hainan, the flight plan approval rate is the highest in the country, and the application procedures are convenient. We can provide customers with higher flight training efficiency." Henan Yongxiang General Aviation Co., Ltd. moved from Henan to Jinlin Haikou General Jiazi Airport to carry out general aviation training business. The person in charge of the company Zhang Hongfei told reporters of Hainan Daily.
Zhang Hongfei introduced that it takes about a year to develop flight training business in Henan and only 4 months in Hainan. At present, the company has registered a new general aviation company in Hainan.
General aviation refers to flight activities other than military, police, customs anti-smuggling flights and public air transportation flights. The relevant person in charge of the Provincial SASAC introduced that “low-altitude tourism, cargo transportation, aerial photography, business flights, flight training, etc., are all areas wher the general aviation industry can develop.”
At present, low-altitude tourism in Hainan is booming, leading the country. In 2020, Sanya will fly nearly 4,200 hours of low-altitude tourism, take off and land nearly 65,000 sorties, and carry 176,100 passengers, accounting for 22.5%, 47.8%, and 51.5% of the country respectively.
From the perspective of the province, general aviation flights have also shown explosive growth. Compared with 2013, in 2021, the number of general aviation companies stationed in Hainan has increased from 7 to more than 60, and the number of general aviation aircraft has increased from 17 to 113.
In 2013, the number of general aviation flights in Hainan Province was less than 6,000, and in 2020 it has reached nearly 170,000. In the first half of this year, the number of flights reached 146,800, an increase of 414% over the same period in 2020.
In fact, more than 90% of the low-altitude flights in Hainan are concentrated in a land area of 35,400 square kilometers. Various flights are intertwined and airspace resources are very tight.
From a province that is not suitable for general aviation to a province that is most suitable for general aviation and the most convenient for flying, behind the gorgeous turn is the low-altitude airspace reform promoted by Hainan.
Reform and innovation make airplanes affordable and manageable
became the only province in the country with low-altitude surveillance and full coverage
General aviation is a basic and strategic emerging industry, but for a long time, the low-altitude airspace management model is unscientific, with many general aviation flight procedures, complicated procedures, and lagging technical means, which have severely restricted the development of my country's general aviation industry.
After the national approval, Hainan has been identified as a pilot province for low-altitude airspace reform and airspace refinement management reform, exploring ways for national reform. In accordance with the deployment of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and led by the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Hainan initiated the construction of the country's only "low-altitude airspace air management service guarantee demonstration zone."
According to Ma Yonghua, director of the Provincial SASAC, Hainan Province focuses on top-level design, strengthens multi-departmental coordination, explores a new model of “national deployment, military-to-local coordination, industry supervision, state-owned enterprise implementation, and diversified operations”, and innovatively implements “relying on the existing air traffic control system”. , Military and civil aviation industry authorization, government landing support, state-owned enterprise control and implementation, and market diversified operation" low-altitude management system framework, to achieve efficient and convenient approval management for general aviation flights.
To make airplanes fly and fly safely, technical support is needed. As the project owner unit, the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Provincial Jinlin Group took the lead in establishing a low-altitude flight management and control service operation system featuring "air-ground integration and three-dimensional support". According to Liang Taiming, General Aviation Director of Provincial Jinlin Group, the group has built 13 air surveillance and ground-to-air communication stations in 11 cities and counties including Haikou and Sanya, making Hainan the only province in the country to achieve full coverage of low-altitude surveillance in the province. "Able to fly, breathe, control."
From "can't fly" to "flight", the low-altitude airspace reform has opened the door to the trillion-dollar general aviation industry market for Hainan and the whole country.
Free trade port policy empowers a new vision of development
20 general aviation airports will be built in the future
According to data, the United States is the most developed country in the general aviation industry, with more than 19,000 general aviation airports; while my country currently has only more than 300, with great development potential.
To promote the development of the general aviation industry, the improvement of the general aviation airport network is an important support. Hainan Province is advancing "air-ground networking". In terms of "land", it is building a "county-county connection" for navigation across the province. In the future, it will build 20 general-navigable airports. This year, it is advancing Baisha Yuanmen, Danzhou and Qing, and Qiongzhong Bays. General airports such as Ling, Sanya Jiyang, Ding’an Nanli Lake, Lingao Changgong, etc. are being constructed; at the same time, 40 different types of flying stations are being planned and deployed along the tourist highway around the island.
Ma Yonghua believes that while improving the "air-ground network" and combining the advantages of the free trade port policy, Hainan has a bright future for the development of the navigation industry. "General aviation flight has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and quick response. The Hainan Free Trade Port promotes free and convenient entry and exit of goods and personnel, which coincides with the advantages of general aviation flight, and can promote the development of low-altitude tourism, general aviation cargo, commercial flight and other industries. The'zero tariff' policy can promote the landing of the general aviation aircraft assembly manufacturing industry in Hainan."
This picture has already appeared in Hainan. On August 18 this year, the Hainan Free Trade Port’s first "zero-tariff" imported aircraft, the AW109E helicopter, officially entered the Jinlin Haikou Jiazi General Airport and was delivered for use; during its introduction, tariffs and import value-added taxes, etc., were reduced and exempted. The amplitude is about 15%. In the vicinity of Jiazi Airport, relevant companies have used the "zero tariff" policy to start the assembly and manufacturing project of the US ICONA5 model.
In the future, Hainan will adopt the "General Aviation +" as a characteristic development model, facing domestic and international cycles, and promote the general aviation industry to link cruise yachts, outlying islands tax exemption, offshore fishing, aerial sightseeing and other consumption models, and establish a "land, sea and air" three-dimensional medium and high-end consumption. New wind direction.
