China's transportation achievements in numbers
Civil aviation:
The number of airports has reached 241, covering 92 percent of cities in China.
The country had 4,568 domestic routes connecting 234 Chinese cities, and 953 international routes connecting 167 cities in 65 countries. Moreover, China has signed bilateral air services agreements with 127 countries, including 96 countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
The on-schedule rate of civil aviation flight increased from 67 percent in 2015 to 81.65 percent in 2019.
The civil aviation's annual average growth of turnover, passenger capacity and freight traffic volume were 11 percent, 10.7 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, during 2015-2019. The country's civil aviation shipping scale remains the world's second-largest for 15 consecutive years.
By September, China's passenger and freight airplanes had flown safely for 121 month, or a total of 86.69 million flight hours.
