China Southern Airlines specializes in aircraft design and engineering.

The specialty of aircraft design and engineering in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics is one of the earliest aviation specialties established in New China. This major mainly faces the aerospace field, and trains senior engineering and technical personnel with knowledge and skills such as aircraft design theory and method, aircraft aerodynamic shape optimization design, aircraft structural reliability design, aircraft dynamics and control, and aero-engine principle and structural analysis.

The main courses of this major include aircraft design principles, structural mechanics of aircraft, aircraft dynamics and control, aero-engine principles and structural analysis, etc. In addition, the major also has a national experimental teaching demonstration center of aviation engineering and a national engineering practice education center of aviation aerodynamics, which provides students with rich practical opportunities.

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics enjoys a high reputation in China for its specialty of aircraft design and engineering, which has delivered a large number of outstanding talents for China's aerospace industry.