When the general aviation industry in China
began over half a century ago in 1951, its primary goal was to carry out pest
control via insecticide spraying.
However, general aviation in China also suffered serious setbacks. After
1996, the volume of general aviation operations and services has increased
throughout China each year. China made lot of investment in its general
aviation sector in the past few years.
In 2012 Cessna signed agreement with GA in
china to assemble and sell. Currently a lot of GA aircrafts in china are
foreign made, mainly by Cessna. They agreement was to build business jets includes
mid-sized business jet. Cessna believed that could beneficial their company
because that deal will expand their company internationally, and could
beneficial their employment by open more job opportunities. Adding up in 2011 Cirrus Aircraft and China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co
(CAIGC) announced that the partnership was complete. Cirrus CEO Brent Wouters. “This is where we do
business. This is where we’re staying. And this is where we’ll add jobs when
our industry rebounds.” Cirrus deal
with (CAIGC) will help the company to grow up the business in the world
aviation market. Also, this deal will make the Cirrus Aircraft to sell more
products.
One of the
reasons for rapid growth in the Chinese general aviation industry is the new announcement
by the government of china to allow a low altitude for the GA in china. As China continues to develop low altitude
airspace resources utilization, the general aviation industry will usher in a golden period of development .Also, China
willing to build more airports exceed to 100 airports in the next of 7 years.
I believe building a relationship
between U.S general aviation manufacture and general aviation industry in China
that could benefit everyone. I think by building relationship the American employees
won’t lose their job in the future because the business is growing up that means
there will be plenty of jobs available for the people that are willing to move.
There will be job opportunities in a lot of areas like airport design, general
aviation aircraft, and manufacturing entities.
References
McMillan, M. (2012, November 27). Cessna signs
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There is a lot of optimism to appreciate in your post. The amount of room for China’s general aviation market to grow will produce a lot of jobs in more than just manufacturing aircraft. Pilot schools, airport construction, a national airspace system, air traffic controllers are just a handful of jobs that will need qualified personnel in the coming years. My fear is that China will earn independency from our country, and others, and be capable of isolated autonomous operation. Essentially, recreate our national airspace system from the acquired companies and relinquish association as soon as cooperation is no longer necessary. Should this happen it will potentially leave our industry in worse condition than it is now.
ReplyDeleteThere will be availability for new jobs but my only question is how many of them will be available for Americans? Visa's can be issued and foreign workers can come to America and work for less than what an American would. Don't get me wrong a lot of jobs will be created for Americans I just think there will be a limit on how many are issued for high paying jobs.
ReplyDeleteWith Chinese companies buying up American general aviation companies, there is always a potential possibility for lost jobs. Hopefully your right and this will in fact allow the companies to grow because now they are able to expand their markets to other places. A country such as China has a great potential for general aviation companies. There is a large amount of people, and also a lot of people with money. This could boost sales for general aviation companies and hopefully allow them to hire more employees.
ReplyDeleteChina first has to open its airspace to general aviation more. Currently there is more general aviation in the state of North Dakota than in the entire country of China. There's not point in companies growing and expanding in China if there isn't anywhere for them to fly.
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