CAAC’s Flight Standard Department and CAST hold work coordination meeting

The Civil Aviation Administration of China’s Flight Standard Department and Center for Aviation Safety Technology (CAST) held a joint work coordination meeting on January 4th in Beijing. The coordination meeting, presided over by Vice Director Xu Chaoqun of the Flight Standard Department of the CAAC, discussed the maintenance work views and measures for implementation of the two CAAC departments in 2008. General Engineer Shu Muhuai of the CAST and Vice General Engineer Wang Hong of the Flight Standard Department attended the meeting. They were joined by staff coming from the Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Department of the Flight Standard Department of the CAAC and the Maintenance Engineering Department of the CAST. During the meeting, Vice Director Xu recognized the hard work contributed by the personnel of each department that led to the many accomplishments last year. Xu said that through these efforts, the air transport of the civil aviation of China successfully fulfilled 10 million hours of safe flight by January 2008. Vice Director Xu, representing the Flight Standard Department, also encouraged the CAAC officials and personnel present at the meeting to further promote their work values of integrity, cooperation, coordination, and consistency of work on system maintenance. Xu further emphasized the importance of enhancing maintenance and policy work. These works include preparation of Service Difficulty Report (SDR), capability of the engineering department to investigate, and the creation of an official website for the Civil Aviation Maintenance Department of China.