Recently, CAAC issued the Opinions on Deepening Civil Aviation Reform during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (the Opinions) which identifies 49 reform tasks for improvement in such areas as aviation safety management system, macro-regulation system, market administration system, operation and service system, policy and law system, scientific innovation system, emergency management system, international cooperation system, administrative system and cultural and value system.

The Opinions lays down the guiding principles, overall approaches and objectives of the reform and points to the directions for breakthroughs in major tasks based on a discussion of the basic features and requirements of the 10 components of the civil aviation governance system and governance capacity.

The Opinions stresses the importance of enhancing the Party’s leadership, improving the mechanism for implementation, strengthening overall planning and coordination and strictly ensuring the implementation of responsibilities in a bid to achieve substantial results.