1. Britain said the device found on a cargo plane at its East Midlands airport was big enough to down an aircraft.
2. The company signed an intentional agreement with Korean Air earlier in February to build up joint companies on cargo transport and aircraft maintenance.
3. Two new cargo aircraft will be bought and several small planes leased for domestic regional air routes this year.
4. A few domestic airlines including China Southern have already created specialized cargo aircraft fleets.
5. Liu said China will develop large cargo aircraft before developing large passenger aircraft.
6. Civilian passenger and cargo aircraft will be used in addition to air force planes.
7. The PLA has readied hundreds of cargo aircraft over the past two days to ferry supplies to Sichuan.