Yangtze River Express Airlines Co., Ltd. (in simplified Chinese扬子江快运航空有限公司) is a cargo airline located in The People’s Republic of China.

Yangtze River Express Airlines Co., Ltd., or Yangtze River Express Airline for short, was founded by Hainan Airlines Group, in 2002. It is China’s second-cargo airlines. The company has a registered capital of 0.5 billion yuan, of which Hainan Airlines Group holds 85% of the shares and Hainan Airlines holds 5%. Lastly, the Shanghai Airport Group holds 10%.

In 2006, there was a transfer of shares among companies and some new companies got the shares of Yangtze River Express Airline. However, it does not affect the operation system of Yangtze River Express Airline as well as the business direction. Therefore, Yangtze River Express Airline was still developing in a quite reasonable rate. Of course, as there are some large airlines being the shareholders of this Yangtze River Express Airline, the source of customers would not pose a problem. For example, If the passengers of Hainan Airlines want to deliver some products in bulk from their existing place to their desired destination, Yangtze River Express Airline would get this task because Hainan Airlines is not very specialist in doing this so that they would forward this business to Yangtze River Express Airline. As mentioned before, this kind of strategic partners is very common in China and even in the world so since Yangtze River Express Airline, they would not need to worry that the business turnover of the company would be too low.

Of course, in some circumstances, Yangtze River Express Airline would also be used by the authority to deliver products. For example, if there are natural hazards like earthquake occurred in certain place in China and the authority urgently need aircrafts to deliver materials to the places, cargo airlines like Yangtze River Express Airline would be called for doing this task. This could also increase the fame of Yangtze River Express Airline and make it become more popular and well-known.