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CLEAR SIGNALS

In the eyes of global aviation industry
leaders, China is becoming the world’s
most exciting market

Jay Menon

hina’s aim to become a major avi- in participating in the long-range wide-body aircraft project.
ation player is injecting impetus “French companies are very interested to participate in the
and opportunities into the global long-range wide-body aircraft CR-929 project.
Caviation industry. The country is We, of course, are following the project with interest,” de
sending clear signals of seeking win-win Lacombe said during the Franco-Russian Council for Economic,
cooperation with the world as well as mas- Financial, Industrial and Commercial Cooperation (CEFIC). Head
tering key technologies, reports Xinhua. of the Department of Aviation Industry of Russian Ministry of
China showed its aviation advances at the Industry and Trade Ravil Khakimov said that the proposed col-
2018 China Airshow, in Zhuhai, south China’s lection process for participation in the project is currently in
Guangdong Province, in November, where
the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of
China (COMAC) along with its joint venture
partner Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation
(UAC) presented for the first time a full-scale
prototype of CR929 wide-body long-range
aircraft.

A New Beginning
“Multiple critical technological breakthroughs
bring China’s capacities in aviation equipment
to a new high,” said Yang Wei, academician of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice
president of Aviation Industry Corporation
of China (AVIC). As the development of the
Russia-China CRAIC CR929 gathers pace,
French companies are showing interest

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