2021 China General Aviation Report

SPECIAL FEATURE: CHINA AVIATION EMERGENCY RESCUE
As the “First National Aviation Rescue Team”, China Aviation
Rescue & Emergency Holding Company (China Aviation Rescue
& Emergency) is dedicated to creating an aviation rescue service
system covering the country, serving the public, in line with
international standards, secure, and highly efficient. Using province
and region as its unit, China Aviation Rescue & Emergency can
provide safe and high-efficient all-day aviation medical rescue
services to main regions nationwide and aviation emergency
rescue services when accidents happen.
Since its establishment, China Aviation Rescue & Emergency
has been committed to emergency aviation rescue following
important instructions from president Xi Jinping and the
document requirement form〔2019〕#89. This platform serves as
a bridge between the demand and providers as an informative
platform and service. Taking advantage of current resources and
integrated viable forces, this platform can meet the demands of
administrative departments and users by providing a one-stop
service.
China Aviation Rescue & Emergency has planned to promote work
by drawing upon experiences gained in key areas, formulating a
pilot scheme at the provincial level, and then spreading this to
other provinces/regions. That is why China Aviation Rescue &
Emergency has established a rescue base in Zhejiang province
which has gradually spread to the Yangtze River Delta Area. China
Aviation Rescue & Emergency proactively attended the aviation
aid safeguard for major national projects and communicated
with related corporations from all over the world. Combining other
resources, China Aviation Rescue & Emergency can improve the
functions of the aviation aid system.
On July 16th, 2021, Henan Province suffered from floods due
to heavy rainfalls. China Aviation Rescue & Emergency reacted
quickly and took responsibility to execute rescue missions. On
July 22nd, against all odds, China Aviation Supplies assembled
one utility (equipped with professional onboard medical facilities)
light-twin Bell 429 helicopter which was dispatched overnight to
disaster areas with consolidated operational capabilities. As a
result, China Aviation Supplies became the “first and only” case of
a central enterprise combining with social forces to fight floods. In
the continuous three-day rescue process, China Aviation Supplies
easily executed missions such as Xinhua’s aerial photography
for news reports, supplies delivery for nursing homes, schools,
trapped communities as well as medical hospital transfers. It has
departed 17 times, patrolled cities with more serious disasters
such as Xinxiang Weihui, Hebi Junxian, Zhengzhou Baisha, brought
around ten thousand pieces of supplies and saved thousands of
people. When China Aviation Supplies fought against the disasters
in Henan Province, it simultaneously responded to the need from
the emergency department in Hebei Province beforehand. China
Aviation Supplies rescue team went to Shijiazhuang for disaster
prevention surveillance, which provided decisive support for
disaster prevention and reduction. This action demonstrated
what central corporations should do: they should come forward,
regardless of gains or losses, and move forward courageously
with positive energy. Thus, it can influence more social forces to
follow, allowing central and local forces to work together.
China Aviation Rescue & Emergency sufficiently fulfills the
social duties as a central corporation whilst promoting industry
development. By creating a platform-based company, China
Aviation Supplies and Aviation Rescue can work together to
play an important role in aviation rescue. This is reflected in the
following three aspects:
• China Aviation Rescue & Emergency supports the
government to fulfill its duties. The main missions include
establishing an aviation emergency rescue service thirdparty
platform to bridge demand and supply, assisting
government institutions to efficiently finish construction
and layout, as well as executing other missions assigned by
government departments.
• China Aviation Rescue & Emergency promotes the
coordination of emergency capabilities and the general
aviation industry. By implementing government emergency
rescue missions, the platform can gather core resources
of general aviation operation, attract related upstream and
downstream general aviation corporations to participate,
facilitate the exchange of various elements, continuously
motivate high-quality development of general aviation as
a national strategic emerging industry, and promote the
optimization of the national emergency rescue standard.
• China Aviation Rescue & Emergency improves safety and
security as well as the public happiness index. It fully utilizes
the platform’s resource connections and the support from
local governments to provide normal aviation medical rescue
services such as road traffic rescue and aviation hospital
transfer etc. As a result, it can improve the level of livelihood
rescue and people’s sense of happiness and security.
Connecting supply and demand as well as up and down has
been set as the goal for China Aviation Rescue & Emergency.
It is dedicated to becoming an important starting point
of the government’s emergency decision-making and a
powerful way to enhance the rescue ability and standard of
corporations.
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