Executive Officer of Japan Airlines: Expects closer Sino-Japan cooperation

A better tomorrow for civil aviation industry

In April, 2018, President Xi announced at the Boao Asian Forum that China will take further steps to open up. On June 28, the Ministry of Commerce released the Special Management Measures (Negative List) for the Access of Foreign Investment (2018) and significantly widened market access. The new Measures cancelled the restriction on foreign stockholding limits in such aviation vehicle segments as trunk airplanes, regional aircrafts, general aircrafts, helicopters, drones and lighter-than-air crafts. This new policy will energize China’s aviation market and bring the development of China’s aviation industrial chain to a new level.

In terms of cooperation in the aviation industry, Akira Yonezawa told us that, as early as in 1979, China had sent flight attendants to Japan for training at Japan Airlines. In 1981, Japan Airlines was entrusted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to perform maintenance for Chinese civil airplanes. In 1997, in return, airplanes of Japan Airlines were serviced in Xiamen. It could be said that Japan Airlines has witnessed the development of China’s aviation technologies.

Photo: Japan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines held a signing ceremony for their joint venture cooperation MoU.

Recently, Japan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue a joint business agreement to capitalize on a boom in Chinese tourism. The cooperation will involve both the main flights between China and Japan and the domestic flights in both markets.

Photo: Wishes for China's 40 years of reform and opening up——Flying Japan Airlines amid Sino-Japan friendship

At the end of the interview, Akira Yonezawa expressed his wish that Shanghai will leverage China's advantages in Internet and big data to further improve the security and convenience of its airports to provide even better services to passengers from all over the world, while Japan Airlines will make further contributions to the cultural and economic exchange between the two China and Japan.

Story by : Yujingfei

Translated by: Lu Yukun