China has been quietly moving to the front of the civil aviation pack for a number of years now. Yet only recently has the rest of the world begun to take notice. The most recent Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) statistics indicate that more than a third of the China’s 133 airports are now capable of handling one million passengers a year. And with a further 55 hubs expected by 2020, it is expected that China will usurp Japan to become the world's second largest national aviation market as early as 2010, with projected passenger figures of 950 million by 2020.
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