Advisers call for more low-altitude airspace

The government should speed up the reform of low-altitude airspace management to boost China's general aviation sector, national lawmakers and political advisers have suggested.

"The civil aviation and military authorities should publish the Regulation on Low-altitude Airspace Management as soon as possible and open more low-altitude airspace," said Meng Xiangkai, a deputy to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, and chairman of China Aviation Industry General Aircraft. He was talking on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the congress.

"Most of the opened airspace is above remote, underdeveloped areas and separated from each other. Moreover, many restrictions are still in place for flights near big cities."