2006 is a critical year for China 's promise to WTO to comprehensively open its logistics industry. The air cargo market presents both opportunities and challenges. After more than half year's speedy development, a common topic faced by global air cargo professionals is to gain insights into China 's air cargo market situation so as to perceive the “general trend” of China air cargo industry and to adjust one's business network and development strategy accordingly.

Thus China Air Cargo Conference 2006 was born. Following the successful 2005 Air Cargo Conference, hundreds of professional elites will convene again at Beijing Lufthansa Kempinski Hotel on October 19 th -20 th . Leaders from global air hubs, airlines, express mail firms, freight forwarders, ground service providers, logistics companies, logistics IT firms, logistics facilities developers will meet to exchange views on hot topics including policy interpretation, traffic rights, take-off and landing and others.

At the conference, the reporter could feel that Beijing 's airport-related economy has attracted intense global attention. A common agreement has been reached by the aviation industry that investing and developing new airport facilities and related air cargo facilities is a must. Corporation leaders and various experts delivered speeches to share their experiences and views with fellow professional elites.

One hot topic is the expansion of Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) and the core of its logistics——air cargo One- Stop Customs Clearance Logistic Park . ACLP key project—— Bonded Logistic Center (B type) becomes a bright spot of the conference. A theme report of tens of thousands words, resulting from careful research and argumentation of the Development Research Centre of the State Council, points out that the impact of the developing of ACLP on Beijing 's GDP amounts to 7.41billion Yuan. And at 2015 ， it will help to push the airport-related economy in Beijing to account for 5.49% of Beijing's GDP.

ACLP and Bonded Logistic Center (B type) is a young project, formally launched only this June. But it was “born with distinction”: not only it is the nation's first airport-dased Bonded Logistic Center (B type) ， but also the core of BCIA's hundred-billion expansion project. The project is steered by Mr. Li Peiying, who with more than 30 years of aviation industry experience is the general manager of Capital Airports Holding Company (CAH), and the project possesses in its league a large number of professional elites with rich industry experiences for whom CEO Desmond Shum is an outstanding representative.

After expansion, BCIA's cargo handling capability will expand from the original 0.5 million tons to 1.8 million tons per annum, which will bring back to Beijing a major portion of cargo diverged to Japan/South Korea, and make BCIA a Northeast Asia's air cargo Hub. Major domestic and foreign logistics companies expressed strong desires to share this grand platform. And the core competitiveness of Airport City Logistics Park Co., Ltd (ACL) lies in providing for clients the fastest and most efficient logistics service.

As the developer and operator, ACL's basic tasks are to develop a one-stop air cargo park for logistics service, to build a first-class airport service support system for the air cargo industry and to improve the efficiency of logistics. From the very beginning, the service concept has been deeply planted into the minds and hearts of the airport builders. The concepts have been extended to:” The service to client companies has no content limit and no area boundary”. When a special request for constant temperature storage was identified at the discussion with a Singapore-headquartered logistics corporation on stationing in the Logistics Park, Desmond Shum, the CEO of ACL, personally led a team and flew a special trip to its headquarter in Singapore. After discussing all details one by one, the team quickly made special planning and designs for its logistics warehouse with even better attention to details than the client and thus won the trust .

Desmond Shum states, as the core content of BCIA 's implementation of its Northeast Asia Air Cargo Hub strategy ， ACLP not only shoulders the important task of logistics support for Beijing 2008 Olympics, it also strives to make, as soon as possible, BCIA an Asia Pacific region's compound global airport hub.

" Beijing Airport Logistics Park will make Beijing and North China to surpass India , and extend the gap to 5-10 years.”, predicted Ingvar Freysteinsson, Director of shipping planning, Sony-Ericssion. Participating global air cargo magnates reached a basic agreement, which is——China Beijing 's air cargo will become a leader of the Asia Pacific market. Considering the situation, taking actions to seize the opportunities in China air cargo, centralizing advantageous resources to effectively deal with the competition structure of Northeast Asia air cargo, and together creating a splendid journey to Northeast Asia 's air cargo hub, they are on their way.