This paper analyses sustainable financial performance of 242 Chinese companies, to see if the companies that utilize business aviation produce better results compared with non-users. This type of research has been done in North America and Europe but has not yet been done in China. The companies were analyzed using the economic performance metric Economic Value Added (EVA). This indicator was used to assess if the companies added or destroyed economic value through their operations. Primary data was gathered from published financial statements of all companies for the six-year period 2011-2016. This paper contributes to quantify the argument that the use of business jets helps companies to be more productive. The main finding of this study is that companies that utilize Business Jets added more collective value to EVA than non-users. In line with similar studies in the USA, Canada and Europe, it is concluded that companies that use business jets produce superior economic growth to non-users. The results were mixed as to whether the companies utilizing business jets experience better financial performance than non-users. The overall growth in EVA by business jet users was very significant. The 80 companies that made up this group grew their EVA by a collective average of 26.4%. When compared with some of the biggest companies on a world stage, business jet users performed outstandingly. The 81 Chinese companies from the Forbes Global 2000 destroyed-17.8% in economic value over the period studied. Any injection of government money into these companies does not seem to be helping them produce added value. However, the number of companies producing positive EVA for the ‘Business Jet User’ group fell from 68% in 2011 to 56% in 2016.