A senior Chinese aviation industry delegation will travel to Scotland in early 2012 to examine direct air routes between the two countries.
First Minister Alex Salmond met senior executives of China's Civil Aviation Authority and senior airline representatives in Beijing yesterday, where they discussed the potential for a direct air route between Scotland and China – and what would be the only such link outside Heathrow.
The meeting is one of a series of government and industry engagements being undertaken by the First Minister and Anne MacColl, CEO of Scottish Development International, this week in Beijing, Shandong, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.