{"id":272,"date":"2007-09-07T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=272"},"modified":"2007-09-07T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T16:49:00","slug":"china-to-recruit-foreign-pilots-to-ease-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/09\/china-to-recruit-foreign-pilots-to-ease-shortage.html","title":{"rendered":"China to recruit foreign pilots to ease shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >C<\/span>hinese airlines need an additional 9,000 pilots by 2010 to satisfy the demand created by the rapid growth of the country&#8217;s aviation industry, a senior aviation official said on Thursday.<br \/>&#8220;But we only have the capability of training around 7,000 pilots, which may result in a pilot deficiency and curb the development of China&#8217;s aviation industry,&#8221; said Gao Hongfeng, deputy director of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC).<br \/>The administration is now trying to expand its training capacity and has opened the door of pilot training to private companies, Gao said.<br \/>&#8220;We have also approved more than 20 foreign professional training organizations to give training courses in China and will recruit some foreign pilots to ease the shortage,&#8221; he said.<br \/>Earlier reports said that China&#8217;s air transportation was expected to maintain an annual growth of about 14 percent from 2006 to 2010.<br \/>China&#8217;s airlines will carry an estimated 270 million passengers in 2010, with an average annual growth rate of 14.5 percent.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">06\/09\/07 People&#8217;s Daily Online, China <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese airlines need an additional 9,000 pilots by 2010 to satisfy the demand created by the rapid growth of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}