China has changed her policy, It is planning to build its own large passenger airliner in order to become a fully developed nation.
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| 26 May 2014 |
The president Xi visited the Comac in Shanghai, currently developing C919 prototype. Lauched in 2008, Comac is set to build commercial airlines breaking the monopoly of European Airbus and the US Boeing. The C919 project is building a 168 seater aircraft competing with B737. However due to the lack of experience and technical knowledge, the aircraft is facing delays, from the original maiden flight of 2014
