A Study On Chinese Airline Industry Regulatory Reform

China has been experiencing airline reform since 1978, which is characterized by the trade-off between regulation and deregulation and different from the international airline regulatory reform path: regulation-deregulation-re-regulation&deregulation. How to evaluate Chinese airline reform? How to adjust Chinese airline reform to the Chinese economy development? The author studied the characters of airline industry and Chinese airline industry, analyzed airline regulatory reform in America and India, evaluated the Chinese airline reform in terms of theoretical analysis and empirical research which is based on DEA method, so as to solve the two problems as above.Chinese airline regulatory reform is subject to the economy mechanism reform, and accordingly, the Chinese government played a changeable and ambiguous role. So Chinese airline regulatory reform is characterized by a heavy government intervene and brought some negative effects to the airline industry. Even though, to some extend, such reform experienced less time and damage than the reform leading by the market, what's more, Chinese airline reform indeed partly achieved the policy expectation through author's empirical analyzing.As the reform path is concerned, Chinese airline industry is in need of steady investment environment and sustainable development, considering the statues of Chinese economy development and comparing to American radical price-deregulation policy, so a step-by-step reform is more appropriate for Chinese airline industry.In general, the author suggested that the further reform require the government make a clear policy expectation and consider the interaction of all kinds of policy tools. In details, taking the advantages of incentive regulation treatments, the government should better make a further-step reform of airlines'recombine and airports'property right reform, and also strengthen the co-ordinate reform of other infrastructure. To thoroughly implement these policies, a healthy law and legislature system as well as a scientific supervision system are required.