Yang Guoqing at Symposium of the ACP’s Executive Management Development Training (EMDT) project

The summarizing conference of the ACP’s EMDTIII was held in Beijing on December 24th, 2008. Yang Guoqing, the vice minister of the CAAC attended the conference and made a keynote speech. The EMDT is a training cooperation project under the framework of the ACP, which draws important attention from the CAAC, TDA, FAA and member companies of the ACP. Both parties from China and US provided the full support for the project in training funding, curriculum organization, training arrangement, and others. A total of 34 trainees from the CAAC, ATMB and airlines, selected by a competitive examination, attended a 4-month long intensive training session. At the symposium, trainees combined their own study and work experience, talked about management theory, ATC construction, new generation of air transpiration system, FAA researched management, safety management, airline operations, airport management and the regulation construction, which introduced real US situations and reference meanings for the CAAC. Yang Guoqing, the vice minister of the CAAC, pointed out that the CAAC remains healthy and steady in developments. Not only seeing the bright future of Chinese civil aviation, but also correctly identifying shortages in the CAAC’s management level, innovation capability, and sustainable and coordinated development. In accord with the CAAC’s characteristic management system mechanism, it was resolved to improve the safe management level from different fields in the idea, to further standardize the civil aviation transportation market, to promote the "soft capability" of improving the international competitiveness of the domestic airlines, and to accelerate a harmonious development for the CAAC.