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Airbus forecast Chinese demand for 5,970 commercial aircraft in that timeframe, and predicted that China will account for half of the world’s 10 busiest air routes.

Chinese company Nanshan Aluminum will supply aerospace-grade aluminum plate to Boeing, taking a key step in accessing the global market.

Bell Helicopter is preparing to support assembly of the Bell 407GXP in China as part of a prospective sale of 100 of the rotorcraft.

Chinese company Nanshan Aluminum will supply aerospace-grade aluminum plate to Boeing, taking a key step in accessing the global market.

Major Chinese space contractor CASC is developing a reusable rocket engine that burns methane with liquid oxygen.

ZHUHAI, China—Avic’s Chengdu fighter works is aiming for a range of 8,050 km (5,000 mi.) for a proposed business jet.

Customers have signed letters of intent for 17 AG600 amphibian aircraft, the manufacturer, Avic general-aviation unit Caiga, said.

Avic plans to offer a civil freighter version of the Y-20, apparently with a high-bypass engine that has been under development for the military transport.

China Eastern Airlines will be the first operator of the Comac C919 under an agreement that the carrier and manufacturer signed at Airshow China.

Avic plans to offer a civil freighter version of the Y-20, apparently with a high-bypass engine that has been under development for the military transport.

Customers have signed letters of intent for 17 AG600 amphibian aircraft, says the manufacturer, Avic general-aviation unit Caiga.

A J-20 that performed at Zhuhai may have been a production aircraft, but it also had ill-fitting panels and other features that did not look very stealthy.

Chinese missile and space group Casic is preparing to build a medium-capacity launcher while also moving into liquid-propellant technology.

The newly revealed Avic Cloud Shadow appears to have a span of around 20 m (66 ft.), like the General Atomics Avenger used by the U.S. Air Force, though the Chinese aircraft is less bulky and probably lighter.

Probably the biggest industrial advantage in setting up 737 completion and delivery centers in China will be freeing up space at Renton and Boeing Field. These sites face a rise in production rates to 57 a month by 2019, compared with 42 now.

UAC will build the wing of a widebody aircraft for the 2020s while Comac makes the fuselage. Final assembly will be in Shanghai, Comac’s home.

For the targeted 10% advantage in operating costs, UAC does not identify the baseline competitor, but it is presumably the Airbus A330-900.

The first Long March 5 is on its launch pad and undergoing pre-flight checks at the new Wenchang launch base on Hainan, an island province in the South China Sea.

Russian Helicopters is talking to potential partners about expanding maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its products in China.

Ten Bombardier CRJ900s ordered by CIB Leasing may be placed with airlines in China or abroad, the Beijing-based lessor said.

A 737 completion center that Boeing has agreed to set up in China with Comac will help the U.S. manufacturer achieve a planned increase in narrowbody aircraft production.

China presented the Avic J-20 fighter at an air show for the first time on Nov. 1, flying two prototypes at the Zhuhai exhibition.

The plant will supply higher-grade aluminum for wing skins and introduce machining to cut costs of the final parts, said Ingo Kroepfl, vice president for Aleris’s aerospace business.

Avic is presenting its new Cloud Shadow jet and a greatly expanded development of its Wing Loong propeller-driven series at the show, while China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) is displaying the CH-5, a jet-propelled follow-on to its established CH-4.

The MA700 turboprop is now due to fly in 2018, a year later than previously planned, Avic said, forecasting deliveries no earlier than 2020.