China's civil aviation sector in orderly resumption

China's civil aviation sector is implementing the steady and orderly resumption of scheduled international passenger flights to speed up the recovery of the global aviation market, which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Tuesday.

To fulfill the needs of overseas students and people involved in international exchanges looking to return to their home countries, the administration is working under the coordination of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council to carry out the resumption of flights, Xu Qing, deputy director of the administration's Department of Transportation, said at a news conference on Tuesday.

Xu also noted that the effort takes into account the evolving pandemic situation, the optimization of recent prevention and epidemic control measures, and the improvement of the ability of local regions to accommodate international flights.