Contemporary Issues Shaping China's Civil Aviation Policy: Balancing International with Domestic Priorities

This book explores the political, economic and strategic issues raised by the inevitable tension between the domestic and international aspects of Beijing's current civil aviation strategy. It also seeks to identify some of the problems that face the industry as a key sector in the larger context of macroeconomic reform and the further pressures now being exerted by China's membership of the WTO.

About the Author

Alan Williams is Professor of Aviation Management in the School of Aviation at Massey University in New Zealand. He is also a Visiting Fellow in Management Studies at Wolfson College, Cambridge and has held visiting professorships at the Aetna School of Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and at Sun-Yat Sen University in Guangzhou. His current research interests lie in the areas of both aeropolitics and market modernization especially in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.