Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
BEIJING — China is dramatically stepping up its efforts to procure Western know-how, with Avic’s commercial engine company, ACAE, launching a large-scale recruitment campaign in Britain and the U.S. to back its development of a narrowbody airliner turbofan. The drive to enlist foreign staff, in part focusing on experienced workers, is another manifestation of Chinese industry’s ability to wield national resources and the lure of market access in its quest for the knowledge it needs to rapidly catch up with Western aerospace leaders.
China is dramatically stepping up its efforts to procure western know-how, with Avic’s commercial engine company, ACAE, launching a large-scale recruitment campaign in Britain and the U.S. to back its development of a narrowbody airliner turbofan.
BEIJING — China aims to launch 13 weather satellites in 2011-20 as part of an effort that it says will put it at the forefront of some technologies. The country will invest 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in meteorological satellites during the period, says the director of the China Meteorological Administration satellite center, Yang Jun.
