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.