Air cargo market gets big boost from corporate giants

"Chinese enterprises are constantly optimizing their global industrial distribution and strengthening their global performance. Meanwhile, Chinese customers have shown their great cross-border consumption capacity," said Liddel Li, president of SF Airlines.

"All these factors foster our sustainable growth and confidence in the Chinese air cargo market."

SF Airlines has evolved into a medium-sized cargo airline over the past 10 years, a golden decade for China's express delivery and civil aviation industries.

China's express delivery industry has become the world's fastest-growing and most dynamic emerging post and delivery market. The volume of China's express packages has exceeded the total sum of the United States, Japan and Europe.

The civil aviation industry is also a highly sensitive barometer of the economy. China's civil aviation market has generally maintained growth momentum, and the air cargo sector is particularly impressive.

Airports are the most important infrastructure sustaining the development of the air cargo and air passenger transport sectors.

Thanks to the country's sustainable economic growth and persistent support, China's civil airport sector has achieved high-speed and high-quality development in the past decade, according to Zhang Rui, deputy director-general of the airport department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

From 2009 to 2019, the number of China's certified civil airports increased from 158 to 238 and eight airports advanced into the world's Top 50 airports.

In the same period, the cargo throughput of China's civil airports increased from 8.83 million metric tons to 16.74 million tons.

"The enhanced air cargo capacity is a highlight in the new round of airport renovation and construction," said Zhu Qianhong, general manager of the Guangdong Airport Authority.