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本刊亚洲地区金融编辑迈克尔·艾伦简要介绍《航空金融》2018年中文版增刊内容。

欢迎来到2018年《航空金融》中文版增刊。一年以来，《航空金融》香港办事处不断发展壮大，将向读者提供国内和亚太地区飞机融资领域更全面的市场讯息。大中华区记者管沁雨（Elsie）新近加入，进一步充实了本刊香港编辑团队，希望通过您所熟悉的语言更为直接简便地与我们分享相关新闻和市场动态。

本刊驻香港营销人员和相关会务活动的联络人皆通晓中文。

去年夏天，香港立法会通过了一项针对飞机租赁公司的具里程碑意义的税改法案，将在港经营租赁公司缴纳的实际税率减至1.65%。此次税法重大调整势必吸引越来越多的国内租赁公司到香港设立业务平台。《航空金融》将持续为您带来相关进展的深度报道。

今年在上海举办的航空金融年会上，我们将推出首届“中国航空金融和租赁颁奖典礼”活动。我们认为中国航空金融市场发展已达到一个鼎盛时期，有必要适时为之量身打造一个颁奖盛典，独立于本刊历年在美国举办的“全球年度交易奖”。

本期内容

本期封面故事我们将带您了解河南省航空产业的发展情况。在当地政府的支持下，借助于河南地处中原的战略位置，多家航空金融公司已落户于此、开展业务经营活动。

本刊执行编辑劳拉·米勒（Laura Mueller）采访了TP租赁公司首席财务官郑佳慧女士，了解在航空金融领域工作的女性面临着哪些挑战。

本刊还撰文向业内享有美誉的航空金融律师刘哈维（已退休）致意。刘哈维亦是本次首届“中国航空金融和租赁颁奖典礼”的评审成员之一。

航空公司访谈方面，我们到四川拜访了成都航空公司。成航是ARJ21飞机的启动用户，该公司在采访中谈到了未来几年的机队发展方向。

今年二月份，本刊编辑参加了新加坡航展，并从当地银行和租赁公司从业者的视角撰写了一篇报道，分析新加坡市场所面临的激烈竞争。

此外，我们还将关注中国市场面临的两大课题：发动机租赁及发生租赁合同违约时飞机资产如何收回。

国银航空金融租赁有限公司首席执行官张骏威向我们阐述了他对于公司未来的设想，以及他将如何打造“中国租赁业的世界品牌”。

本刊“交易聚焦”栏目将剖析朗业租赁运作的一个A380融资项目，看“中西合璧”是如何做到的。

本期“经营租赁/带购买选择权的经营租赁”问卷调查，我们将为您呈现中国租赁企业在2017年对日本税务租赁融资项目的热捧。

最后，我们还将带您了解国泰世华银行这家开始关注国内租赁公司融资需求的台湾银行。

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Click here to download the 2018 China supplement (点击这里下载2018年中文版增刊)

English translation 

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2018 edition of Airfinance Journal’s Chinese-language edition. Since I wrote to you in last year’s edition, Airfinance Journal’s Hong Kong office has gone from strength to strength, providing you with more market intelligence on the Chinese and Asia-Pacific aircraft finance markets than ever before. We have expanded the editorial team in Hong Kong with the addition of our Chinese-speaking Greater China Reporter Guan Qinyu (Elsie), giving you a direct editorial port of call in your own language for sharing news and market information with us. 

Our sales team member in Hong Kong is also a Chinese speaker, and our conference team – as before – remains Chinese speaking.

Last summer, Hong Kong’s legislative council passed groundbreaking tax reforms for aircraft leasing companies, reducing the effective tax rate for lessors domiciled in the city to just 1.65%. This legislative upheaval is sure to lead to more and more lessors from mainland China setting up in Hong Kong, and Airfinance Journal intends to provide you with in-depth coverage of these developments. 

At this year’s Airfinance conference in Shanghai, we are introducing our Inaugural China Awards. We believe that activity in the Chinese aviation finance market has reached such a high point that it deserves its own dedicated awards, separate from our annual global Deals of the Year awards held in the United States.

Inside this issue

Our cover story in this issue takes a look at aviation development in Henan province, where several aviation companies, with the support of the local government, are taking advantage of the province’s strategic location in the centre of China.

Then we pay tribute to esteemed aviation finance lawyer Harvey Lau, who has retired from the industry. Lau is also serving on the judging panel for our Inaugural China Awards.

Our managing editor Laura Mueller interviews Valerie Tay, the chief financial officer of Transportation Partners about the challenges of being woman in the aviation finance market.

For our airline interview, we travel to Sichuan province to meet ARJ21 launch customer Chengdu Airlines and discuss their fleet requirements for the coming years.

In February, I was in Singapore for the Air Show. While there, I wrote a report about the intense competition banks and lessors are seeing in the market.

We also take a look at two challenges issues in the Chinese market: engine leasing, and how to repossess aircraft when things go wrong with a lease.

CDB Aviation’s chief executive officer Peter Chang shares his vision for lessor CDB Aviation and how he want to build a ‘global lessor with Chinese heritage’.

In our Deal Focus, we analyse an A380 deal arranged by Comsys, looking at how the ‘East meets West’

In our Jol/Jolco survey, we show how Chinese lessors demonstrated strong appetite for Japanese tax lease financing in 2017.

Finally, we introduce you to Taiwanese bank Cathay United, which has started targeting mainland Chinese lessors for financing transactions.

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Michael.Allen@airfinancejournal.com

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