1949年11月2日，刚刚诞生不久的中华人民共和国在人民革命军事委员会下设立了民用航空局，开始创建新中国的民航事业。50年来，中国民航事业走过了一条从小到大，逐步成长为世界民航大国的光辉发展历程。在机队建设方面，中国的民航运输飞机由195o年的3O架、1978年的兀架增加到 On November 2, 1949, just after the birth of the People's Republic of China, a Civil Aviation Administration was set up under the People's Revolutionary Military Commission to start the cause of civil aviation in new China. Over the past 50 years, the cause of civil aviation in China has gone through a glorious course of development that grew up as a large civil aviation country in the world. In terms of fleet construction, China's civil aviation transport aircraft increased from 30 aircraft in 195o to 565 in 1978