HANOI, March 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam hopes to further promote
cooperation with China in the aviation industry, Deputy Director
General of Vietnam's Northern Airports Authority Nguyen Hoang Cuc
said in an interview with Xinhua.
   Cuc said that Vietnam's aviation industry has fast developed in
the past years. Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport received 2.3
million passengers in 2001, increasing 51 times compared to those
of 1978, 10.4 times over 1985, and 5.6 times over 1990.
   However, he said, Vietnam's aviation needs to be further
developed in a bid to meet the increasing demand of the social-
economic development of the country. Hanoi's Noi Bai International
Airport is striving to receive 6 million passengers by 2005 and
become an international entrepot airport by 2010.
   Speaking of the Sino-Vietnam cooperation in the field of
aviation, Cuc stressed that the friendly relationship between the
two parties and the two countries has unceasingly developed,
creating favourable conditions for the bilateral cooperation in
the aviation industry.
   Vietnam's aviation industry has received great assistance as
well as learned a lot from its Chinese counterpart, he said.
   "We have just visited some of China's big airports and are
happy to see the great development of China's international
airports," he noted.
   Expressing his wish to further share experience with China, he
said that "while working with leaders of Beijing International
Airport, we invited them to visit Hanoi's Noi Bai International
Airport, in order to share experience with each other."  Enditem