Recently, the special plan for the development of aviation logistics in the 14th five year plan (hereinafter referred to as the “plan”) was officially issued. This is the first time that China’s civil aviation has prepared a special plan for the development of aviation logistics. Under the great changes not seen in a century, this fully shows the determination of the state to vigorously develop the aviation logistics industry and injects confidence into the future production and operation of aviation logistics enterprises.
The plan reflects the “four changes” in the understanding of the aviation logistics industry, namely, from “emphasizing passengers and light goods” to the implementation of the development strategy of “paying equal attention to passengers and goods”, the transformation of the freight service chain from “on-site” to “door-to-door”, the transformation from a single transportation chain to integration with multiple production chains, and the transformation from industry management to integrated governance, which will promote the healthy development of China’s aviation logistics from a macro perspective.
The plan analyzes the main service capacity, basic support capacity, digital level and business environment, and points out the practical problems such as “the scale of all cargo aircraft of China’s aviation logistics enterprises is relatively small”, “it is difficult to obtain cargo flights at most hub airports in China during the day” and “professional cargo airports are still blank”, which points out the focus for the construction and development of aviation logistics enterprises during the 14th Five Year Plan period.
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China is striving to build a new development pattern with China’s big cycle as the main body and China’s international double cycle promoting each other, which requires the aviation logistics industry to accelerate the digitization, networking and intelligent empowerment. The leaders of the leading enterprises in the industry read from the plan what kind of road the aviation logistics will take in the future, and saw that the future can be expected
Liu Jianmin, general manager of Henan Airport Group:
build an international leading aviation logistics hub
Through the rapid development in recent years, Zhengzhou airport has formed a hub competitive advantage of sustainable and healthy development, cultivated and formed four advantages: network accessibility, customs clearance convenience, facility perfection and operation efficiency, which has been highly recognized by international and Chinese aviation logistics practitioners. Under the guidance of the spirit of the 11th Party Congress of Henan Province, Henan airport is committed to building an internationally leading hub economy leading area, mainly from the following four aspects: first, open major channels, constantly optimize and improve the route network layout, and strive to deepen the construction of the “air Silk Road”. Second, cultivate large industries, strive to develop a diversified industrial system, and build a platform for the directional economic development of Henan Province. Third, improve the development environment and provide customers with better services. Fourth, accelerate the process of digital intelligence and implement green and low-carbon transformation.
2022 is the 5th anniversary one of the “one belt, one road” construction. Henan Airport Group will take the construction of the “air Silk Road” as the core to guide the international routes, and launch a “cargo transportation route” along the “one belt” road, RCEP countries and international.
Take the aviation hub of Zhengzhou airport as the platform to gather the upstream and downstream industries of aviation logistics industry, aircraft maintenance industry and other science and technology industries. In mid February, the maintenance subsidiary of Henan airport group was established, planning to build a neutral aviation maintenance business development platform, build the country’s first airport fresh port high-end service demonstration park, support the construction of express distribution center and form an exclusive transfer center.
We will continue to improve the customs clearance environment at ports and improve customs clearance efficiency. Henan Airport Group accelerated the construction of phase III project of Zhengzhou airport, continuously improved the functional layout of infrastructure, took the construction of North freight area of Zhengzhou airport as an opportunity to promote the construction of smart freight and explore a new path for the construction of air freight hub. Focus on strengthening the intelligent application of the North freight area, and promote the implementation of smart freight station functions such as intelligent three-dimensional warehouse, self driving trailer, automatic stacking and handling, unmanned forklift and so on. Zhengzhou North Cargo Station will be put into operation in the first half of this year; Explore and build an efficient and collaborative multimodal transport collection and distribution system with aviation as the core.
With the support of industrial strength, promote the application of new digital technologies in the airport, vigorously expand the application scenarios of 5g, Internet of things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other new technologies, explore the growth point of digital economy, and build a modern, digital and intelligent airport.
SF air president Liu lianghao:
build an independent and controllable international logistics supply chain
We note that the plan has repeatedly mentioned “independent and controllable”, emphasizing the goal of the construction of international freight network and aviation logistics system during the 14th Five Year Plan period. Before the outbreak of the epidemic, SF airlines had the awareness of “national goods and national transportation”. The outbreak of the epidemic prompted us to speed up the pace, accelerate the improvement of international air cargo capacity from the aspects of network construction, transportation capacity expansion and talent training, help the country build an independent and controllable international logistics supply chain, and provide basic support for national economic security and the smooth flow of China’s international double cycle. SF Airlines has deployed in key business areas, such as settling the international routes intensively opened during the epidemic, gathering high-quality guarantee resources in the international market, establishing close cooperation with SF international business sector, and vigorously cultivating and absorbing international operation talents. “Reliability and controllability” is one of our efforts. Scale, intelligence, efficiency, quality and environmental protection are also important yardsticks for us to evaluate the quality of development. We will combine the current situation of the industry and ourselves, work in multiple ways and make efforts at multiple points, strive to grow into a higher quality market subject, and continue to promote the high-quality development of the aviation logistics industry.
This year, the number of all cargo aircraft of SF airlines will increase to 70, which is expected to achieve a breakthrough in the scale of 80. The proportion of long-range wide body all cargo aircraft will be expanded, and the strength of all cargo aircraft fleet will be improved by leaps and bounds.
At the beginning of this year, SF Airlines participated in the pilot work of the structural reform of aviation resources carried out by the Central South administration of civil aviation in Shenzhen Airport Co.Ltd(000089) China. The international route between Shenzhen and Osaka, Japan has been officially switched from “night shift” to “day shift”. This means that SF Airlines has greater development space in the operation of international routes and can more effectively support the construction of independent and controllable international logistics supply chain.
During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Hubei Ezhou Huahu International Airport (hereinafter referred to as “Ezhou airport”), China’s first professional cargo hub airport, will be completed and put into operation. In the future, it will speed up the filling of the shortcomings of insufficient basic support capacity of air cargo, improve the specialization level of cargo transportation, promote the simultaneous and coordinated development of passengers and cargo at the airport, and form an internationally competitive air cargo hub, This will create huge development space and operation convenience for aviation logistics enterprises including SF airlines.
In February this year, the Western China headquarters project of SF Airlines officially settled in Chengdu, Sichuan. The project will promote the construction during the “14th five year plan” period. SF airlines will also increase the investment in transportation capacity here, build a freight route network connecting Ezhou, radiating the whole country, covering the Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States, and reaching the world smoothly. With Ezhou hub as the core and regional hub as the fulcrum, SF airlines will continue to strengthen the international air freight capacity.
Standing in the period of strategic opportunity for the development of aviation logistics, SF airlines will take “safety, wisdom, efficiency and green” as the direction target, accelerate the improvement of aviation logistics service capacity and quality, help realize the high-quality development of aviation logistics industry, and contribute to the revitalization of industrial economy and the construction of a strong civil aviation country.
Yu Wenyong, chairman of Jinpeng Airlines:
build a global air cargo network
Jinpeng airlines will focus on the national construction of international air cargo logistics and transportation development strategy, grasp the historical opportunity of the construction of Hainan free trade port, rely on the overall air cargo plan of HNA aviation group, plan to optimize the cargo aircraft fleet by introducing Boeing 777 all cargo aircraft, comprehensively focus on the construction of world-class urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta, deeply tap the freight market in East China and build an air cargo network radiating the world. Give further play to the operation strength of Jinpeng airlines’ international cargo routes, gradually expand the market share of China’s long-distance cargo aircraft, build an air cargo transportation system with international influence, and better serve the local economic development and national logistics strategic layout through air bridges.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the state has given unprecedented policy support to aviation logistics. At the same time, with the development of high value-added industries such as integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, high-end consumer electronics and high-end precision equipment and the acceleration of international trade, it has also brought huge market space for the development of air cargo enterprises.
At present, China’s manufacturing industry is climbing to the middle and high-end of the industrial chain, which needs the support of high-quality aviation logistics. Jinpeng Airlines sits on two international “terminals” Shanghai and Shenzhen, and has the blessing of Nanjing’s economic development advantages. It has more opportunities to serve China’s manufacturing industry chain and supply chain. In combination with the plan, Jinpeng airlines will actively practice the enterprise values of Liaoning China Fangda Group Co.Ltd(000055) “operating enterprises must be beneficial to the government, enterprises, employees and passengers”, pay close attention to fine control with market-oriented thinking, grab the market and gain profits externally, block “running, emitting, dripping and leaking” internally, and cut both sources and expenditure. Refine the revenue and cost to the segment and day, truly achieve dynamic control, effectively achieve cost reduction and efficiency development, and better serve the development of the Yangtze River Delta economic belt and related industries.
In addition, Jinpeng Airlines has actively participated in the construction of Hainan free trade port freight hub. In the future, Jinpeng airlines will collect cargo from Hainan through the passenger plane route network of various airlines within HNA Group, transit to Southeast Asia and Europe and the United States through all cargo aircraft, or use Hainan as the technical stop point to strengthen the close cooperation between Hainan and countries and regions in China’s freight, international transit, sea air intermodal transport, logistics and distribution, and continue to strengthen the exchange and complementary development with Europe, America and the economic hinterland of the mainland through its own freight advantages, Give full play to the bridge role between Hainan free trade port and Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta economic belt, help Hainan build an important fulcrum for a new channel of international land and sea trade, help the new development of national air cargo logistics, provide strong support for improving the modern circulation system and smooth double circulation, and provide strong support for building a strong civil aviation power in many fields.
“magpie to” platform deputy general manager Zhang Xiaobin:
promote the upgrading and acceleration of aviation logistics
Aviation logistics industry is a strategic industrial system and an important part of the construction of civil aviation power. From the actual situation, the current overall scale of China’s aviation logistics industry is relatively small, the service capacity is not strong, the specialization is not enough, the full link service lags behind, the application level of informatization is not high, the aviation logistics information system is relatively independent, the data interface, format and information exchange standards are not unified, the phenomenon of information island is serious, and the data sharing mechanism has not been established among the systems closely related to the development of aviation logistics. There is a big gap between the participating enterprises of aviation logistics and the international level in terms of freight organization ability and service quality, which does not match China’s economic and social development and the upgrading of people’s consumption demand. We believe that it is time to empower and upgrade the aviation logistics industry.
Strengthen the digital application of aviation logistics industry and build smart aviation logistics. The logistics subsidiary of Juneyao Airlines Co.Ltd(603885) has made transformation and innovation attempts in recent three years and created a global air logistics integration platform – “magpie to” platform. The platform changes the current situation of many service chains and single mode that has lasted for many years, and provides customers with a variety of optional services such as “door-to-door” with one click order. Through the integration of resource trading elements of the aviation logistics industry, the platform makes effective connection between demand and resources. At the same time, we are developing an air cargo intelligent system (IFS), which will improve the intelligence of air cargo in terms of freight rate, cabin stowage, etc. During the “14th five year plan” period, we hope to formulate the standard information system of the aviation logistics industry under the leadership of the competent department of the industry, break the information island pattern of the aviation logistics industry, break the information connectivity barriers between airlines and airport cargo terminals, and realize information exchange and sharing. In the next five years, we believe that the aviation logistics industry will be significantly improved in accelerating digitization, networking and intelligent empowerment, so as to realize the leap from traditional transportation mode to modern logistics service system.
Yihang intelligent Chief Strategic Officer Xu Huaxiang:
create more possibilities for UAV logistics
The development prospect of air smart logistics in the future is very considerable. It is an important subdivision of the whole Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co.Ltd(300832) “air mobility” and has great commercial prospects. Yihang intelligence will continue to focus on flight technology, provide professional autopilot aircraft logistics solutions for different enterprises in the logistics field, and do what we are best at. Through the air intelligent logistics solution of automatic flight and cluster scheduling management, we will liberate the labor cost to the greatest extent, improve the operation efficiency, and make the flight technology benefit people’s lifestyle.
With the growth of mass economy and consumption level, the logistics industry needs to face problems such as rising labor costs and customers’ increasingly urgent requirements for timeliness.
Air smart logistics is based on autopilot aircraft and adopts a new logistics mode of fully automated distribution process. Compared with the traditional logistics transportation mode, autopilot aircraft has more advantages in solving the delivery challenge of the last kilometer. At the same time, autopilot aircraft can also play a great role in some scenes with high timeliness requirements, such as organ transplantation, blood transportation, etc. In addition, self piloted aircraft can realize contactless distribution, thus bringing a more reassuring and hygienic logistics service experience. Especially in the fight against covid-19 pneumonia, it can be seen that people have a huge demand for contactless economy.
Yihang intelligence has made intensive efforts in the field of UAV logistics
In the field of UAV logistics, Yihang intelligence has always positioned itself as a provider of air intelligent logistics solutions, adhered to the research and development of intelligent aircraft products and the optimization of the overall solution of intelligent air logistics, and built a more intelligent, efficient and automatic air logistics network platform for customers in different industries such as logistics, retail and e-commerce with an open platform. Through mutual cooperation with ground transportation modes, more possibilities are extended, covering diversified application scenarios such as small package transportation, large cargo transportation, offshore oil field transportation, island transportation, large international port material supply, medical supplies transportation, emergency medical materials transportation, emergency rescue and emergency disaster relief transportation.
Fengyi technology CEO Jiang Mingtao:
UAV erecting air emergency transport channel
Fengyi technology is a technology company of Shunfeng that focuses on the field of UAV logistics. It is committed to the mining and deep cultivation of UAV logistics application scenarios, continues to introduce high-level talents, and adheres to the combination of technological innovation and industry university research.
For the UAV industry as an important part of the civil aviation industry, the plan proposes to vigorously guide the innovative development of UAVs and strengthen the safety management of UAV operation. Fengyi technology will continue to improve the UAV product technology and improve the safety performance of UAVs as a national strategy.
In recent years, the demand of the national logistics industry has increased rapidly. In remote areas with inconvenient transportation, the advantages of UAV logistics are very obvious. Therefore, the plan includes UAV logistics into the service of “express delivery to villages and mail to villages”. Fengyi technology will continue to give full play to the product advantages of mobility and flexibility, build an efficient urban and rural UAV logistics network, and improve the coverage and depth of aviation logistics, In the future, we are committed to using scientific and technological means to help achieve the long-term goal of rural modernization and urban intellectualization, consolidate poverty alleviation and help industrial upgrading.
At present, the scientific and technological application of Fengyi UAV has covered a variety of complex scenes such as sectorau, hills, cities, islands and lakes, comprehensively solved the transportation obstacles of various terrain and traffic conditions, and provided a non-contact air emergency transportation channel. This year, Fengyi technology will still adhere to the “1 + n” composite scenario mode, and continue to make efforts in the extended application of express, medical, patrol inspection, emergency tasks and other industries on the basis of low altitude logistics network, so as to build a low altitude UAV logistics network centered on Shenzhen and covering major cities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay area.
Fengyi UAV transports nucleic acid samples for Luohu hospital
In addition to the logistics field, Fengyi UAV also gives full play to its advantages of mobility and flexibility in the field of emergencies and emergency handling. In the battle of epidemic prevention and control, Fengyi UAV provides safe, fast and contactless UAV air transportation emergency support services for many medical units.
At present, the development of modern cities is facing various challenges. Technology is the only way to use existing resources to cope with the growth of demand. In the application of smart cities around the world, unmanned systems are being tested and deployed in order to improve the efficiency of the government and the quality of people’s life. During the “14th five year plan” period, with the increasingly clear development direction, Fengyi UAV will go deep and forge ahead in technological innovation.
