Over the past decades, China has had a good record in aviation safety while developing the industry at a high speed, the head of the UN specialized agency for civil aviation has said.
Its experience in this regard needs to be shared by other countries, particularly the developing ones, Liu Fang, secretary general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), told Xinhua in an interview.
Liu said that China is the second largest country in the world in terms of total volume of passengers and cargo carried by air transportation behind the United States.
Statistics from the Civil Aviation Administration of China showed it was estimated that passengers made a total of 440 million trips in 2015, up 11.4 percent year on year. International routes also registered an explosion, increasing to 660 international routes.
"At present, China is a major power in world civil aviation," Liu said. "Its experience in this regard should be shared by other countries."
COOPERATION FOR SECURITY
"It is our hope that ICAO and China will further their cooperation so that more countries can share China's experience," she said. "This is conducive to the development of global civil aviation."
She said that her agency is a very good platform to share China's relevant experience with the other 190 member states, particularly those developing nations.
Liu said that governments of the member states, including China, attach great importance to the safe and secure air transport systems. "I would like to see all member states, including the Chinese government, to enhance their cooperation and collaboration," she said.
"We also would like to see strengthened cooperation between ICAO and China in the field of technical assistance and technical cooperation," she said.
A challenge in global civil aviation lies in the uneven implementation among all member states of international standards, she said.
"We set a global target for this global implementation, for now, that is 60 percent. However, some States are still unable to reach this target," she said, adding that ICAO would like to raise this rate to 80 percent or even 90 percent in the coming years.
"So, clearly, there is a need for the States which are really in need to get proper support and assistance in terms of expertise, in terms of funding resources, to help them establish national regulatory system, to help them get proper capacity in terms of expertise and to help them establish a technical system to do the job."
To reach the target, the Montreal-based ICAO has put forward the "No country left behind" initiative, she said.
