Chinese plan aviation cities to give sector room to grow

摘要

Two Chinese companies have launched a pair of projects to build airport-based greenfield business aviation industrial and service developments, to serve the country's expanding business and general aviation sector. The so-called aerotropolis clusters will be near Beijing and in Ordos in inner Mongolia. Superior Aviation Group - the firm that unsuccessfully tried to buy Hawker Beechcraft in 2012 -is preparing to build a 800ha (1,980 acre) town 20km (12 miles) from Beijing. Tim Archer, Superior Aviation group chief executive, says the project is a response to the frustration felt by many Western manufacturers and businesses over the slow pace of investment in the country's infrastructure to support business aviation.