China Issues Aerospace Plan Including Push for Flying Cars

What’s new: Four Chinese ministries issued an outline for the development of a green aerospace manufacturing industry, aiming to put electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft into trial commercial use by 2025.

The outline also set a long-term goal of building a green aviation manufacturing system by 2035 with new-energy aircraft as the mainstream of development; domestically made large civil aircraft reaching world-class levels in safety, environmental protection, cost and comfort; and large-scale commercialization of unmanned electric aviation equipment. That’s according to a document published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the Civil Aviation Administration of China.