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The takeoff of the aerospace economy: the “sky map” of the leasing industry
The combination of policy trends and scenario breakthroughs is seizing the opportunity in the trillion dollar market.
In 2024, the State Council released the “Action Plan for Low altitude Economic Development”, which saw explosive growth in low altitude logistics, emergency rescue, aviation tourism and other scenarios. Keenly seizing opportunities, Huarong Financial Leasing actively promotes the “aviation+shipping” dual wheel drive strategy, deeply cultivates many segmented markets such as civil aviation aircraft, general aviation helicopters, and aviation engines, and has landed a series of major projects.
In January 2025, the first operational leased helicopter was successfully delivered to a leading domestic aviation company. This new generation twin engine helicopter, worth billions of yuan, can be used for offshore oil transportation services, medical rescue, and other purposes, with high value and resale value.
This order is of great significance: the operating leasing model reduces the financial pressure on general aviation enterprises, promotes the “affordable and good use” of general aviation equipment, and helps the low altitude economy move from “policy fever” to “industrial prosperity”. As another vivid practice of Huarong Financial Leasing’s professional transformation, the project has been efficiently coordinated from negotiation to delivery, setting an industry benchmark and becoming another milestone in Huarong Financial Leasing’s service to the real economy.
If helicopters are the fulcrum for Huarong Financial Leasing to leverage the low altitude economy, then satellite leasing is its ambitious goal of “looking up at the stars”. In August 2024, a low orbit satellite equipped with an Internet of Things system was launched into space by a Long March rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, marking the successful launch of the first batch of networked satellites of the Chinese version of “Starlink” and the leap from “three-dimensional” to “four-dimensional” leasing by Huarong Financial Leasing.
What is even more remarkable is that Huarong Financial Leasing has broken through the traditional leasing boundary and cooperated with private leading enterprises on its first low orbit IoT constellation project. In the future, it will cover 90% of the world’s regions, not only helping to localize the Beidou industry chain, but also serving the billion dollar markets such as smart agriculture and ocean monitoring – the boundary of financial leasing, which is extending to the stars and the sea.
Data confirms strength. Huarong Financial Leasing currently has assets worth over 5 billion yuan in the aerospace industry and has launched a total of 16 satellites.
The leap of leased property from “land, sea, air” to “land, sea, air, sky” reflects the strategic determination and foresight of “deepening the specialized track”. In 2024, relying on CITIC Group’s “55+3” strategy, Huarong Financial Leasing will accelerate the construction of an “aviation ecosystem” and successfully achieve a breakthrough in its business landscape. And a series of actions not only respond to the national low altitude opening-up policy, but also promote the upgrading of the aviation industry chain to high-end and intelligent through the “finance+industry” model.
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