Recent achievements show Beijing’s efforts to localise the components of its planes have not abated in the wake of the C919’s success
While its home-grown airliners bring China the most attention in the complex, lucrative field of aviation, the country is also making strides in an equally important realm: the many components necessary to ensure the safe, smooth operation of jets and other aircraft.
Recent developments in a number of areas show Beijing is continuing to reduce its reliance on foreign parts, close long-standing technological gaps and assert itself as a major player in civil aviation at all levels of the supply chain. We have gathered some of them below.
During an interview on state broadcaster CCTV, Zhang Yanzhong of the Chinese Academy of Engineering offered a rare public update on one of the country’s most closely watched aviation projects: the CJ-1000A, a domestically produced large commercial jet engine.
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