Headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Southern Air Holding Company Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as China Southern Group or CSAH) is a large centrally-administered air transportation group, with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council performing its responsibilities as an investor.
Mainly engaged in air passenger and cargo transportation, China Southern Group is the direct or indirect majority shareholder of 10 airlines, including China Southern Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, Chongqing Airlines, China Southern Airlines Henan Airlines, Guizhou Airlines, Zhuhai Airlines, Shantou Airlines, Hebei Airlines, Jiangxi Airlines, and China Southern Airlines Cargo Company Limited, as well as China Southern Airlines General Aviation Company Limited, while taking stakes in Sichuan Airlines. On the basis of strengthening and optimizing its main business in air passenger and cargo transportation, China Southern Group has been diversifying into upstream and downstream sectors of the industry, including aviation maintenance and manufacture, general aviation, in-flight catering, digital technology, flight training and equipment manufacture. By June 2025, the group had 972 passenger and cargo aircraft and helicopters.
China Southern Group embraces China's new stage of development through promoting high-quality development and serving both the domestic and international markets with the aim to build itself into a world-class airline with global competitiveness. It pursues safe, high-quality, innovative, cooperative, and shared development, and implements hub network designing, ecosystem building, innovation, lean cost control, and brand operation strategies.
China Southern Group is committed to serving regional economic and social development with high-quality growth, meeting peoples growing needs for better travel experiences, and strongly supporting the implementation of major national strategies. The company supports the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the construction of Xiong'an New Area by building Beijing into an international aviation hub. It keeps strengthening and expanding the Guangzhou aviation hub, and contributes to the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the building of Shenzhen into a pilot demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It's dedicated to the high-level construction of a gateway hub in western China and serving the Belt and Road initiative. China Southern Group proactively optimizes its route layout in the northeast China to support the region's full revitalization in the new era. Meanwhile, it's also making efforts to improve its route network in the six provinces of central China, so as to facilitate the region's rise.
Focusing on enhancing core functions and core competitiveness, China Southern Group gives full play to the its role in scientific and technological innovation, industrial control, and safety support, and promotes state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises to grow stronger, better, and bigger. It endeavors to deepen the reform of scientific and technological innovation mechanisms, bolster high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, push forward major scientific and technological innovation research related to aviation, and promote the effective integration of industry, education, research, and application and the efficient transformation of scientific and technological achievements. China Southern Group firmly shoulders the responsibility of stabilizing economy and growth. For the first half of 2025, its total turnover, passenger traffic volume, and cargo/mail volume reached 18.72 billion ton-kilometers, 83.28 million, and 940,000 million tons, respectively. Among these, the international transportation turnover, and passenger and cargo/mail traffic were 7.61 billion ton-kilometers, 10.03 million, and 453,000 tons, respectively. China Southern Group promotes the reform of safety management quality, efficiency, and impetus, and constructs seven safety systems covering safety responsibility, risk control, process control, regulations and manuals, training, safety culture, and scientific and technological innovation, so as to ensure the absolute safety of aviation operation and peoples lives. As of June 2025, it had ensured flight safety for 308 consecutive months and in-flight security for 373 months.
China Southern Group is dedicated to building the “Sunshine China Southern” corporate culture for the new era, with “Enabling More People to Enjoy Better Flights” as its mission, “Building a World-class Enterprise” as its vision and “Safety First and Customer Orientation” as core values. The company has identified “Creating a Globally Renowned Airline Brand” as its brand strategy, “Reliability, Warmth, and Vigor” as its brand personality, and “Being an Industry Leader” as its brand position. CSAH has been conscientiously fulfilling corporate social responsibilities and giving back to the country and society as a central SOE. The company has successfully completed a number of major transportation support tasks. It contributes to the nation's poverty alleviation through developing industries, boosting consumption, strengthening air connectivity, improving education and training, building demonstration villages, and providing volunteer services in rural areas. It also facilitates carbon peaking and carbon neutrality through green and low-carbon transformation.
