ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a sequential review of some major strategy problems, such as the inherent difficulties China's civil aviation industry faces given the fact that civilian services must co-exist in an overall system where military priorities have until now tended to shape the effective control of airspace. It considers the further problems that arise as the Guangzhou Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) tries to fit a growing national demand for airline services into a current route network that constrains a large proportion of airline operations geographically to a limited area of domestic airspace, bounded by the Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou Mega-hubs. The protection of the sovereignty of national airspace in most countries conventionally strikes a balance between the degree of freedom enjoyed by all types of civil aviation. And the need to be prepared to take military control of any incursive activities by foreign aircraft, that might ultimately require the deployment of the national air force.
