From 27 to 28 august, a 2025 conference on the development of high-quality civil aviation maintenance works, co-sponsored by the guangdong aerospace society and the shanghai city aviation institute, was held in guangzhou. Under the theme of “innovation, empowerment and leadership”, the congress, with the strong support of the chinese air society, the south china airlines engineering technology branch, shanghai aircraft client services ltd., the guangzhou institute of civil aviation professionals and technology, beijing university of technology (jouhai) and the national community of civil aviation maintenance and industrial integration, the great bay civil aviation maintenance industry union, the consortium of engineers of the hong kong sar region and others, brought together over 300 elite representatives from civil aviation agencies, airlines, maintenance enterprises, universities and supply chains to explore the path of civil aviation maintenance in the digital transition and green development wave。
At the opening of the congress, the director-general of the department of airworthiness validation of the civil aviation administration of china, xu ululu, the vice-president of the shanghai city aviation society and secretary-general, kim hong minh, the vice-president of the guangdong province institute of aeronautics and space, the vice-president of the guangzhou institute of civil aviation professional technology, and the researcher at the three levels of the academy of science and technology of guangdong province, feng zheng, participated in the opening of the congress and made statements。
The former director of the department of airworthiness validation of china's civil aviation administration, xu ulqun, stated that the chinese civil aviation fleet and the maintenance market had continued to expand, with intelligent civil aviation as the main route, building an autonomous and controlled maintenance system and implementing safety directives. In his view, the industry was in the critical phase of “green transformation, intellectual upgrading”, faced with seaworthiness challenges such as “two carbons”, technological convergence, and offered to decipher the three dimensions of safe red line, innovative engines, and synergetic networks, and looked forward to the general assembly generating innovation and cooperation to contribute to the high-quality development of civil aviation maintenance。
The site brought together representatives of the civil aviation authority's regulatory agencies, 30 original service providers, aircraft maintenance units, civil aviation colleges and 200 leading industrial chains in the shipping supply chain, among others, to conduct in-depth discussions on core topics such as the interpretation of the ecological and strategic transformation of the mro industry, the safeguarding of shipping materials and supply chain innovation, intelligent transport and digital technology, the breakthrough in maintenance technology and technological innovation, and the building of human and industrial infrastructure。
In the main report, five experts, general manager of the market and marketing department, beijing aircraft maintenance engineering ltd., li, deputy general manager of the air engineering department, east china aviation co. Ltd., shi huan, chief engineer of the customer value centre of the china commercial flight service centre, wang dong, deputy general manager of air maintenance engineering co., changzhou (hangzhou) aviation maintenance engineering co. Ltd., respectively, brought about the “breaking of the situation and firmness of the process” - some reflections on the quality development of the mro market and enterprises in china, “the whole life-cycle engineering management of aircraft”, “over the long mountain — c909 operates in laos”, “digration of maintenance behaviour in the study and application of maintenance style management”, “promoting the integration of culture in the construction of a community for aircraft maintenance”。
During the round-table discussion, five experts, namely, soo mugen, wang dong and do-gyu county aviation co. Ltd., general manager of maintenance and engineering, tang zhiqiang, director general of engineering, guangzhou aircraft maintenance and engineering co. Ltd., and private sun, secretary and deputy director, beijing aerospace materials research institute, china, discussed the theme “trends in civil aviation maintenance, technological progress and future intelligent exploration”. The session was chaired by u xie, deputy secretary-general of the guangdong institute of aeronautics and astronautics。
During the congress, the guests shared topics such as how to further implement maintenance standardization, how civil aviation maintenance could balance safety efficiency and cost, how to break the “calculation neck” challenge and improve autonomous control capabilities, and embrace the “digitalization” wave to drive the maintenance effectiveness revolution, “new positioning of the division of small and medium navigation's predictive maintenance development hub”, “new positioning of the focused aviation hub to build integrated secure hard power”, “mro's development direction in the aircraft maintenance market” and “research on the construction and application of large models for civil crash prediction and health management”。
During the study tour, the guests travelled to the south china air development history museum and the guangzhou institute of civil aviation technical and technical studies to carry out the spiritual legacy of disassembly chinese civil aviation workers who dared to dream and dream first。
It was described that the “xiv-5” civil aviation development plan had placed smart civil aviation development, a green low-carbon transition and security capacity upgrading at the centre of the strategy, which had contributed to the explosion of industrial innovation practices. Currently, the global aviation industry is accelerating its transition to greening and intellectualization, and china’s civil aviation maintenance project (mro) offers a historic opportunity in the context of a large domestic-made aircraft, c919-sized, and an expanded fleet of c909. The global mro market will reach $1. 2 trillion between 2024 and 2033. The experts considered that the global aviation industry was accelerating its progress towards greening and intellectualization and that the maintenance of civil aviation in china (mro) offered historic opportunities。
As an important academic community in the aerospace field in our province, the guangdong provincial institute of aeronautics and astronautics has long done a great deal of successful work in academic exchanges, talent development, promotion of productive research and industry policy advice, and the hosting of the congress is yet another manifestation of the sensitivity of the society to the artery of industry, its proactive service and its commitment and contribution to development. In recent years, the guangdong civil aviation industry has grown rapidly, and there is an unprecedented and urgent need for high-quality reliability maintenance and safety capabilities. The participation of experts in the conference, through in-depth exchanges, the sharing of experiences and results, and the sparks of wisdom, have contributed significantly to the innovative development of the civil aviation maintenance industry。
