Staff members carry out aircraft maintenance. [Photo/Xiamen Daily]
Xiamen Customs supervised a total of 36 inbound and outbound maintenance flights in January, a 16.13-percent year-on-year increase and maintaining its position as the top-ranked in China.
The value of imports and exports of aircraft maintenance in the bonded area reached 11.38 billion yuan ($1.58 billion), a year-on-year increase of 12.62 percent and a record high for a single month.
With the gradual return to normal operations of the international and domestic aviation transportation industry, as well as the accelerated transformation of the business model of Xiamen's aviation maintenance industry, the bonded maintenance business volume of the Global One-stop Aviation Maintenance Base in Xiamen Free Trade Zone has continued to grow rapidly since 2023.
This has driven the total revenue of Xiamen's aviation maintenance industry to 121.6 billion yuan in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 46.9 percent, surpassing the previous peak in 2019.
In order to promote the high-quality development of aviation bonded maintenance as a new productive force, the Xiamen FTZ management committee, in conjunction with Xiamen Customs and other departments, has been implementing the 16 policy measures promoted by the General Administration of Customs.
They have established standardized regulatory processes for new maintenance formats and reduced cross-departmental approval times by 60 percent.
Additionally, they have focused on streamlining the industrial and supply chain, reducing the time needed to complete regulatory operations by two days.