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The CAAC does not share responsibility of managing mainland China's airspace with the Central Military Commission under the regulations in the Civil Aviation Law Of The People's Republic Of China (中华人民共和国民用航空法). Being subordinate to military traffic, non-commercial Civil Aviation is rather restricted. General and private aviation in mainland China is relatively unknown. There are fewer than 50 Business Jet s in use and very few privately owned airplanes while the United States has more than 25,000 registered business aircraft and more than 140,000 privately owned.

CAAC was also an Airline run by the CAAC. However, the aviation regulation division and the airline operation division were separated in 1988 with the CAAC airline division further divided into Air China (which inherited the IATA and ICAO code of the original CAAC), China Eastern Airlines , China Southern Airlines , China Northwest Airlines , China Northern Airlines and China Southwest Airlines , each named after the geographic region of the location of their head quarters and main operation areas.