I am quietly amused. In the 1990's I lived in Beijing and in the flat below mine lived the (Dutch) Airbus representative to Air China, who used to call on me a couple of times a week at least to rant, over a Heineken, about Air China's absurdly excessive fuel reserves... ]
And here's the reason for those "absurdly excessive" fuel reserves:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ver-china.html
In China, with Chinese ATC and Chinese bureaucracy and total inflexibility, you only have too much fuel if you're on fire.
