On September 22, CAAC Administrator Feng Zhenglin met with a delegation led by Governor of Liaoning Province Liu Ning in Beijing. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on further promoting civil aviation development in the province. Lyu Erxue, CAAC Deputy Administrator, Chen Xiangqun, the province’s Executive Vice Governor, and Wang Mingyu, the province’s Vice Governor, attended the meeting.

According to relevant statistics, the civil aviation sector in Liaoning handled 42.01 million passengers and 368,000 tons of cargo and mail in 2019, a respective YoY increase of 8 and 10.8 percent. Shenyang Airport and Dalian Airport both exceeded the 20 million mark in term of the number of passengers handled. As far as the total amount of cargo and mail handled is concerned, Shenyang Airport topped all other airports in the three northeastern provinces. Dalian Airport became the first airport in northeastern China with both international and regional passenger throughput exceeding the 2 million mark.