Civil Aviation Administration of China / 中国民航总局

The Civil Aviation Administration of China is the regulator whose policy opening and approval process frame Chinese Private Airline Opening in No.203 "不死鸟"兰世立. The episode says the regulator signaled openness to private capital around 2004, after which carriers including East Star Airlines / 东星航空 and Spring Airlines / 春秋航空 gained approval.

For East Star, the regulator matters because approval was not only a market decision. Lan Shili / 兰世立 needed support from Hubei / 湖北 and Wuhan / 武汉 officials before East Star received permission to prepare as a private airline in 2005. The source therefore treats regulatory opening as a constrained window that still required local state backing, capital, aircraft, and operational capability.

Connections

• Chinese Private Airline Opening — policy window the page anchors.
• East Star Airlines / 东星航空, Spring Airlines / 春秋航空, and Lan Shili / 兰世立 — private-airline examples.
• Hubei / 湖北, Wuhan / 武汉, and Local Government Enterprise Rescue — local-government layer around approval and crisis response.
• Private Airline Failure Modes — failure pattern once approved entrants met aviation’s fixed-cost structure.