Aviation trading giant seeks strategic investors before listing

China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC) is seeking strategic investors before getting listed later this year, according to a senior company official.

"We are in talks with several leading domestic financial institutions for strategic investment in the company," CATIC Assistant President Tao Ruichang said.

China's largest aviation trading company is targeting big financial holding corporations that deal with comprehensive industrial businesses, he said after the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense issued a guideline on March 2.