Headquartered in Shanghai, China Eastern Air Holding Co., Ltd. (CEAH) is one of the three major air transportation groups in China and could be traced back to the first squadron established in Shanghai in January 1957. As of the end of 2021, CEAH had a total asset of more than RMB 380billion and over 100,000 employees. Its business covers air passenger transportation, aviation logistics, aviation finance, aviation real estate, air catering, financial leasing, import and export trade, aviation media, industrial development, industrial investment, and other aviation highly related industries. On the basis of establishing a modern aviation service integrated system, CEAH focuses on three pillar industries: full service, low cost and logistics, and strives to build five industry synergies: MRO, air catering, technology innovation, finance and trade, industrial investment. Air passenger and aviation logistics, two core business of CEAH, are both listed which makes CEAH the first major air transportation group to achieve this.

As the core business of CEAH, China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd. (CEA) is the first Chinese airline to be listed on New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets. By the end of June 2022, it operates a modern fleet of over 750 aircraft, which is one of the youngest fleets in major airlines worldwide. Moreover, it has the largest-scale in-flight Wi-Fi wide-bodied fleet with leading commercial and technical models in China. As a member of SkyTeam Alliance, CEA has extended its flight network from its two core hubs, Shanghai and Beijing, to 1,036 destinations in 170 countries and regions via close cooperation with SkyTeam Alliance member airlines, so as to build “double hubs in two cities with four airports” operating model.

China Eastern is always committed to fulfill its social responsibility and takes an active part in humanitarian and relief missions for passengers and freight transport.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, China Eastern has operated the first flight of civil aviation to aid Hubei as well as the first international medical charter flight and has undertaken more than one-third of the anti-pandemic transportation tasks of civil aviation in China.

China Eastern has been conducting fixed-point poverty alleviation in Shuangjiang County and Cangyuan County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province through aviation support, industrial development and education support for several years, so as to help two counties shake off poverty and push forward rural revitalization. 

China Eastern achieved 2 million tons of carbon emissions reduction during the 13th Five-Year Plan(2016-2020), and steps up efforts to implement “green flight” strategy so as to win the battle for a blue sky. China Eastern has successfully launched the first carbon-neutral-in-whole-life-cycle flight in China.

In recent years, China Eastern has won awards at home and abroad in the fields of operation quality, service experience, CSR, etc.,  ten consecutive years of Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands by the world's famous brand rating agency WPP, four consecutive years’ nomination of “Global Top 500 Most Valuable Brand” by UK's brand rating agency - Brand Finance, two consecutive years of Top 20 Chinese Enterprises Global Image Award-ranking first in the transportation industry. Additionally, China Eastern has got two consecutive years of the A rating in the latest ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria and listed the first place among the airlines, according to global index compiler MSCI.