China News Service Beijing (Reporter Liu Wenwen) In 2025, China's civil aviation will complete a total transportation turnover of 164.08 billion ton-kilometers, a passenger transport volume of 770 million, and a cargo and mail transport volume of 10.172 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%, 5.5%, and 13.3% respectively.
The data picture shows a plane taxiing at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on November 10, 2025. Photo by China News Service reporter Jiang Qiming
This reporter learned this at the 2026 National Civil Aviation Work Conference held on the 6th. Song Zhiyong, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, introduced at the meeting that in 2025, with flight volume increasing by 4.7% year-on-year, the flight regularity rate will exceed 90%. The entire industry achieved a profit of RMB 6.5 billion, and operating efficiency further improved. Traditional general aviation completed 1.218 million flight hours, the total number of real-name registered drones exceeded 3.28 million, and the cumulative flight hours were 45.3 million, a year-on-year increase of nearly 70%.
Song Zhiyong also said that in 2025, international flights will recover to more than 90% of 2019, international passenger traffic will increase by 21.6% year-on-year, regular passenger flights between China and India will resume, and "southbound" flights to Latin America will be resumed. "Channel" route was successfully opened, Hainan Free Trade Port's seventh freedom flight successfully made its first flight, and passenger traffic in Central Asia, West Asia, Africa, and Latin America increased by 59.3%, 33.4%, 39.0%, and 108.6% year-on-year.
"Overall, in 2025, the industry will maintain a steady and positive development trend, with the main goals and tasks successfully completed, and the '14th Five-Year Plan' will come to a successful conclusion." Song Zhiyong revealed that in 2026, China's civil aviation will strive to complete a total transportation turnover of 175 billion ton-kilometers, a passenger transport volume of 810 million, and a cargo and mail transport volume of 10.7 million tons. (End)
