The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) announced that the industry had achieved a total transportation turnover of 164.08 billion tonne-km in 2025, a 10.5-percent year-on-year increase.

On March 1, 1965, an Il-18 aircraft departed Beijing, stopped over in Chengdu, capital of the neighboring Sichuan Province, and landed at the airport of Damxung in Lhasa the next day, marking the ...