China Northwest Airlines Co., Ltd. (中国西北航空公司) was a Chinese airline headquartered in Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.

In 1988, the State Council decided to split CAAC into six separate airlines, of which China Northwest was one of them.

It operated mostly domestic routes but also a handful of international flights to Japan.

After the acquisition the airline was renamed China Eastern Xi Bei.

[2] At the time that China Northwest merged into China Eastern, the airline's fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[3]