| |  | | |  | January 20, the 8th National Enterprise Management Innovation Conference releases 73 national-level business innovations, and the “conjoined uniprocessor package management of the air & ground service” from Shandong Airlines received a silver prize. | | January 28, Shandong Airline’s Rainbow Executive Air Co. holds a press conference, announcing its founding to the public. | | March 12, Shandong Airlines becomes a listed company. It stood behind the principles of advancement with the times, enhancement of style, and honesty & integrity. This listing sent the company in a new direction where ceremonious occasions are placed behind doing honest and hard work in realizing true development and gaining a solid reputation. | | March 21, the first domestic luxury business jet aircraft – the Challenger 604 is released, and is put into operation. | | March 31, due to career evaluation, former Shandong Airlines party secretary, Chairman, and CEO Sun Dehan is transferred to the City of Binzhou to become Mayor. The provincial party secretary appointed Jia Fuwen as the new CEO of Shandong Airlines, and Li Junhai as the new party secretary. | | May 18, the Shandong Airlines Centre, situated at the East Outer Ring Road of Jinan, is completed and underwent successful architectural evaluation. The Group’s various departments as well as those of subsidiary companies begin moving into the new Centre. | | June 8, Shahekou Airport opens in Penglai, Shandong. It was an investment by the Penglai municipal government as well as Shandong Airlines. Shandong Airline’s Cessna 208’s can fly directly from here to Dalian, Tianjin, Beidaihe, and other destinations. | | August 29, Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd. is founded under the auspices of the Sichuan Airlines Group in Chengdu. This event opened the way for the formation of alliances between the backbone airlines of China and the more populated regional airlines. It broke the bureaucratic barriers between directly controlled airlines and regional airlines, ended the singularity in property structure rights. A new development path has been opened for an inter-regional, multi-industry, and multi-faceted ownership airline companies. Sichuan Airlines, China Southern Airlines Company Limited, Shanghai Airlines Co., Ltd., Shandong Airlines Co., Ltd., and Chengdu Yinxing Food Service Co., Ltd. joined to form the Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd., with total ownership equity of 350 million Yuan. Of this, Sichuan Airlines owned 40%, or 140 million Yuan. China Southern owned 39%, or 136.5 million. Shanghai Airlines and Shandong Airlines each owned 10% or 35 million Yuan respectively. Chengdu Yinxing owned 1% of shares, totalling 3.5 million Yuan. | | September 11, following approval from the Shandong Administration for Industry and Commerce, Shandong Aviation Group is founded. It was a subsidiary of Shandong Airlines Co. Ltd., which was renamed the Shandong Aviation Group Co., Ltd. | | December 26, the company holds a celebration for eight years of safe operations in Jinan. |
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