Abstract：As the growth pole of regional economic development，the pathway that airport economy leads the development of regional economy includes：changing the regional elements endowment in the micro scale，coupling with the regional industries in the medium scale，accelerating the tax revenue increase and employment growth in the macro scale. As a representative of Chinese airport economy，Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone（short for ZAEZ）has played a significant leading and demonstrating role in the following fields：deepening the system reforms in an all-round way，promoting the “synchronization of five modernizations”，building “one carrier and four systems”，constructing “Four Henan”，advancing the structural reform of supply-side and integrating the resources of Henan airport. The article concludes：the structural reform of supply-side needs to be accelerated to integrate into the international frontiers of airport economy. Airport economy is promising under the “One Belt，One Road” initiative. The ZAEA development has promoted the innovation of regional development pattern and showed the tendency of new “four modernizations” of the future regional development. The airport economy has developed rapidly based on the international aviation transportation system，which may change the traditional development pattern that the regional development center located in the coastal areas usually since the Industrial Revolution，and open up a new era that the regional development center will return to the inland regions.

Key Words：airport economy；the structural reform of supply-side；Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone；regional development pattern；inland era

Airport economy is a new type of economic pattern surrounding airport and airport peripheral areas. In recent years，with the economic development and production technology have progressed，big data，the Internet and intelligent manufacturing development have been changing the rules of industry competition and business enterprise location，a new competition system based on aviation，digital，globalization and time value has been forming quickly. In order to meet the demands for efficiency，flexibility and reliability，the industries which are very sensitive to the time gradually have gathered around the airport in Beijing，Shanghai，Guangzhou and other places，the high-tech and IT companies have emerged in the airport perimeter consequently. All of those factors have stimulated the further expansion of air cargo and air express，thus airport economic development has been taking shape，and a certain influential industrial advantage and brand advantage have been formed. As a representative of the airport economic development in China，ZAEZ has made remarkable achievements in a short span of four years. In order to accurately grasp the deep reasons that how ZAEZ drives the economic development of Henan province，and to summarize China’s airport economy development systematically，this paper takes further analysis on the basic features of airport economy，interprets the mechanism and path that how airport economic drive the development of regional economy scientifically，and combines the practice of ZAEZ. naCF+8oF5/UZzu2b70wbNSiyGSsGFA9xQgsWn4RyPJJX1bhyK5nks/xAkTXa4YgG