Number of Civil Aviation Routes and Civil Aircraft
Item	1985	1990	1995	1998	1999	2000	2001
Number of Civil Aviation Routes	268	437	797	1122	1115	1165	1143
International Routes	27	44	85	131	128	133	134
Domestic Routes	233	385	694	983	987	1032	1009
Regional Routes	8	8	18	8	22	42	42
Length of Civil Aviation Routes (km)	277217	506762	1128961	1505811	1522221	1502887	1554000
International Routes	105959	166350	348175	504429	523300	508405	517000
Domestic Routes	160323	329493	750794	994130	998921	994482	1037000
Regional Routes	10935	10919	29992	7252	30812	55759	56000
Number of Civil Airports	82	94	139	143	142	139	143
Airports Serving Boeing 737 or Larger Aircraft	10	47	81	106	120
Number of Civil Aircraft	404	421	720	801	795	982	1031
Aerotransport				510	523	527	566
Air bus				443	445	462	486
Boeing 747	6	11	16	20	17	19
Boeing 737	15	21	115	161	174	186
Boeing 757		9	44	48	48	48
Boeing 767	2	6	17	15	16	16
MD-90					20	22
MD-82	5	25	39	39	29	27
Airbus A310	2	2	3	3	3	3
Airbus A320					51	60
Tu-154	2	20	33	25	13	10
BAe-146		10	14	14	14	7
Puddle-jumper				80	65	65	80
Y-7	13	45	67	46	33	22
General Aircraft				278	285	301	296
a) The number of civil airports and aircraft in 1985 and 1990 refers to those owned by enterprises directly under
CAAC. Since then, it refers to those owned by all enterprises of civil aviation. The same as in the
following table.
b) Before 1997, regional routes includes the routes to and from Hong Kong, Macao, and are taken as the
parataxis item as the item of domestic routes and international routes. Since 1997, regional routes to and from
Hong Kong are taken as domestic routes, and adjustment are also made on the length of aviation routes
and traffic volume accordingly. Since 1999, regional routes are taken as a part of domestic routes,
and include the aviation