DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL AIR POLICY IN COMMUNIST CHINA

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• Publication Date: May 26, 1960
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DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL AIR POLICY IN COMMUNIST CHINA
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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 In early 1958 the Chinese Communists announced that they would
concentrate for the next two years on the development of domestic
air routes. Particular emphasis was to be given to provincial air-
lines which loom large in China's policy of service to the hinter-
land. 1/ These lines are not subordinate to the Administrative
Office of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC),
and receive only general supervision from the CAAC. China's pro-
vincial routes are somewhat analagous to the regional routes
formerly operated in the USSR from the territorial. administration
headquarters to key points on the scheduled civil air routes of
Aeroflot. The provincial routes in China, however, are used not
only to link areas poorly served by other transport to the main
civil air routes, but also to supplement the surface routes link-
ing different cities, possibly for the movement of high priority
freight and passengers. The aircraft employed are bought by the
provinces and managed from provincial headquarters as far as
scheduling, rates, and charges are concerned. During 1958 more
than 6,700 kilometers of this type of route were opened and plans
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COMMUNIST CHINA
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were announced to set up networks within all the remaining pro-
vinces and autonomous regions by 1960. 2/ Provincial routes are
served by the An-2, the first civil aircraft produced in China.
The An-2 is a single-engine plane with capacity for seven pas-
sengers or 2,700 pounds of freight. 3/
With coverage of provincial areas fairly well-developed and
with the growth of the CAAC route network to 36,000 km in 1959, 4/
Peiping's preoccupation with domestic services may give way to
international expansion using Chinese aircraft.
The Chinese Communist civil air fleet, which has been almost
completely re-equipped with Bloc transport aircraft since 1955,
contains about 100 aircraft capable of engaging in international
operations. The present inventory of such aircraft is estimated
as follows :
Li-2 25
Ts-62 5
I1-12 5
I1-14 55
I1-18 3
Convair 240 1
Total 94
There are a number of indications of a growing Chinese in-
terest in international operations. For example, one of the urgent
needs for operations on an international scale is an efficient
adaptation of Chinese characters for use in communications. After
several years of preparatory work, Communist China's National
People's Council in 1958 ratified a "Phoneticization Plan" for the
Chinese language and adopted a 26-letter Latin alphabet. It is
anticipated that the new system will find wide use in communica-
tions serving transportation and particularly air transport. Con-
siderable training will be required, however, before Chinese per-
sonnel acquire facility in its use in international communications.
Coordination of services over Bloc networks is arranged between
Aeroflot and the carriers of the European Satellites by means of
spring and fall meetings at which representatives of the carriers
set up summer and winter schedules and make arrangements for tech-
nico-scientific collaboration. Communist China has on occasion
sent observers to these meetings. In December 1959 observers from
Communist China attended a meeting of Bloc representatives in
Moscow at which the discussion covered primarily the development
of air traffic on international routes. 5/ Then in February 1960
Communist China sent a delegation to "the first conference of the
socialist countries on questions of employment of aviation in the
national economy." 6/
In April 1960 the Chinese scheduled the newly acquired, 78-
passenger I1-18 (Coot) on the Peiping to Irkutsk sector of the
international jet air route from Prague to Peiping via Moscow.
The Prague-Moscow segment of this route is flown by Aeroflot and
CSA, the Czechoslovak airline, the Moscow-Irkutsk segment by Aero-
flot, and the Irkutsk-Peiping segment is shared by Aeroflot and
CAAC. The Chinese have the right to fly all the way from Peiping
to Moscow ad,,?ay-use. this right in the near future. The Tu-104
and Tu-104A are used by Aeroflot and CSA and the turbo-prop 11-18
by CAAC.
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Analyst:
Sources :
1. State, Hong. Dsp 1314, 13 Apr 56. C.
State, Hong Kong. Survey of China Mainland Press, no 1955,
1 Jan 59. U.
2. Joint Publications Research Service. JPRS 854-D, 17 Aug
59, Transportation in the People's Republic of China. U.
Gt Brit, BBC. Summary of World Broadcasts III, Far East,
16 Dec 59, p. B/2.
CIA. Weekly Rpt on Communist China, 4 Apr 60, p. 21.
OFF USE.
3. Air. Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, Navy, ONI.
Characteristics and Performance Handbook USSR Aircraft,
Jan 19 .
4. State, Hong Kong, Survey of China Mainland Press, no 2153.,
10 Dec 59, p. 8-9. U.
5. Deutsche Verkehrs Zeitun , Hamburg, 17 Dec 59, no 150, p.2.
6. State, Moscow. Incoming Airgram no G433, 6 Feb 60. U.
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