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国揭开了一款旨在与波音公司(Boeing Co.)和空中客车公司(Airbus)展开竞争的大型客机样机的面纱，并预计将在本周的珠海航展上接到数百份订单。
Associated Press
中国珠海航展上展出的中国国产大型客机C919模型。
C919旨在与波音公司的737以及空客的A320展开竞争，空客为欧洲航空防务航天公司(European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.)旗下子公司。这两家西方的飞机生产商目前占据着中国市场，据波音估计未来二十年中国市场的价值将达到4800亿美元。
张新国在为期六天的珠海航展开幕前夕的一次记者会上说，此次航展期间，他相信C919将收到数百份订单。
他没有提到潜在买家的名称。但行业观察人士说，它们可能会包括国有的国内航空公司中国国航(Air China Ltd.)、中国东航(China Eastern Airlines Corp.)、中国南航(China Southern Airlines Co.)，也许还会有海南航空(Hainan Airlines Co.)。
另一个可能的买家是通用电器(General Electric Co.)的租赁子公司，它曾在两年前上一届珠海航展上同意购买25架中国商用飞机公司生产的ARJ21支线飞机。这家美国公司的高管说，通用电器计划向中国的航空公司租赁70座的ARJ21，供它们在国内使用。
Bloomberg News
珠海航展上的C919
然而期望中的订单其确定程度如何，中国商用飞机公司是否会像多数外国生产商那样规定潜在买家的订金将不予退还，这些都还没有答案。鉴于C919项目的重要意义，政治因素将会在接单时起到推动作用。
一些业内人士还怀疑C919能否准时完工，他们指出ARJ21已较原定的推出时间2009年延迟了近两年。
人们预计C919直到2014年才会进行首航，第一批飞机交货要到两年后。周一推出的飞机模型与实物一样大小，但只包括飞机机身的前半部分，带有模拟驾驶舱。
几家美国和其他外国供应商正在联手打造C919，其中包括CFM International Inc.，这是通用电气和法国Safran SA建立的合资企业，该公司获得了为C919生产飞机引擎的价值100亿美元的合同。
根据中国民用航空局的数据，中国民航市场正在迅猛成长，今年前九个月全国飞机乘客人数较上年同期增长18%，至2.007亿人次。波音本月预计，未来20年中国可能将购买4,330架新的商用飞机，这将使中国成为继美国之后全球最大的飞机市场。
在中国努力与外国飞机制造企业竞争之际，中国继续购买外国喷气客机，本月中国国家主席胡锦涛访问法国期间就向空中客车订购了102架飞机。
ARJ21已在全球市场获得一些成功，在本土和海外市场获得了240笔订单。中国商用飞机有限公司周一对官方媒体新华社说，ARJ21首批飞机预计将在明年交货。新华社报导，四架ARJ21飞机正在试飞，另有两架正在地面进行测试，以获得美国联邦航空局（FAA）和中国民用航空局的适航认证。
Jeremy Page
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China unveiled a mock-up of a large passenger jet designed to compete with Boeing Co. and Airbus, predicting that hundreds of orders would be placed during this week's Zhuhai Air Show.
Orders for the single-aisle, 160-seat C919 likely would come from domestic Chinese airlines and foreign leasing companies, said Zhang Xinguo, vice president of state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China, a major shareholder in the plane's maker, Commercial Aircraft Corp.
The C919 is meant to compete with Boeing's 737 and the A320, which is made by European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.'s Airbus unit. The two Western aircraft manufacturers currently dominate a Chinese market estimated by Boeing to be valued at $480 billion over the next two decades.
'During this air show, I believe hundreds' of orders for the C919 will be announced, Mr. Zhang said at a news conference on the eve of the six-day air show.
He didn't name prospective buyers. But industry observers said they are expected to include state-run domestic airlines Air China Ltd., China Eastern Airlines Corp., China Southern Airlines Co. and possibly Hainan Airlines Co.
Another possible buyer is General Electric Co.'s leasing arm, which agreed two years ago at the last Zhuhai Air Show to purchase 25 Commercial Aircraft ARJ21 regional jets. Executives of the U.S. company have said GE plans to lease the 70-seat ARJ21s to China's domestic airlines for use within the country.
The expected order for the C919 would represent a vote of confidence in China's decades-long quest to develop a large passenger jet─a project that Beijing rates alongside its space program in terms of national prestige.
Still, it was unclear how firm the expected orders will be, and whether Commercial Aircraft will require a nonrefundable deposit from prospective buyers, as is demanded by most foreign manufacturers. Given the importance of the C919 project, politics could drive the order announcements.
Some industry insiders also have questioned whether the C919 will be completed on schedule─noting that the ARJ21 is already almost two years behind its original introduction date of 2009.
The C919 isn't expected to make its first flight until 2014, and the first deliveries aren't expected until two years later. The mock-up unveiled Monday was life-size but consisted of only the front half of the fuselage, with a cockpit simulator.
Several U.S. and other foreign suppliers are working on the C919, including CFM International Inc., a venture of GE and France's Safran SA that won a $10 billion contract to make the Chinese plane's engines.
China's civil-aviation market is undergoing enormous growth, with nationwide airline traffic for the first nine months of this year up 18% from a year earlier to 200.7 million passengers, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Boeing predicted this month that China would likely require 4,330 new commercial airplanes over the next 20 years, making it the world's biggest airplane market, after the U.S.
Even as Beijing has sought to compete with foreign aircraft manufacturers, China has continued to buy foreign jetliners, placing orders for 102 planes from Airbus this month during a visit to France by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The ARJ21 already has had some success in the global market, attracting 240 orders from home and abroad. First deliveries of the aircraft are expected to be made next year, Commercial Aircraft told the official Xinhua news agency on Monday. Four aircraft were undergoing test flights while another two were being tested on the ground to earn airworthiness certificates from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Xinhua reported.
Jeremy Page
Orders for the single-aisle, 160-seat C919 likely would come from domestic Chinese airlines and foreign leasing companies, said Zhang Xinguo, vice president of state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China, a major shareholder in the plane's maker, Commercial Aircraft Corp.
The C919 is meant to compete with Boeing's 737 and the A320, which is made by European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.'s Airbus unit. The two Western aircraft manufacturers currently dominate a Chinese market estimated by Boeing to be valued at $480 billion over the next two decades.
'During this air show, I believe hundreds' of orders for the C919 will be announced, Mr. Zhang said at a news conference on the eve of the six-day air show.
He didn't name prospective buyers. But industry observers said they are expected to include state-run domestic airlines Air China Ltd., China Eastern Airlines Corp., China Southern Airlines Co. and possibly Hainan Airlines Co.
Another possible buyer is General Electric Co.'s leasing arm, which agreed two years ago at the last Zhuhai Air Show to purchase 25 Commercial Aircraft ARJ21 regional jets. Executives of the U.S. company have said GE plans to lease the 70-seat ARJ21s to China's domestic airlines for use within the country.
The expected order for the C919 would represent a vote of confidence in China's decades-long quest to develop a large passenger jet─a project that Beijing rates alongside its space program in terms of national prestige.
Still, it was unclear how firm the expected orders will be, and whether Commercial Aircraft will require a nonrefundable deposit from prospective buyers, as is demanded by most foreign manufacturers. Given the importance of the C919 project, politics could drive the order announcements.
Some industry insiders also have questioned whether the C919 will be completed on schedule─noting that the ARJ21 is already almost two years behind its original introduction date of 2009.
The C919 isn't expected to make its first flight until 2014, and the first deliveries aren't expected until two years later. The mock-up unveiled Monday was life-size but consisted of only the front half of the fuselage, with a cockpit simulator.
Several U.S. and other foreign suppliers are working on the C919, including CFM International Inc., a venture of GE and France's Safran SA that won a $10 billion contract to make the Chinese plane's engines.
China's civil-aviation market is undergoing enormous growth, with nationwide airline traffic for the first nine months of this year up 18% from a year earlier to 200.7 million passengers, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Boeing predicted this month that China would likely require 4,330 new commercial airplanes over the next 20 years, making it the world's biggest airplane market, after the U.S.
Even as Beijing has sought to compete with foreign aircraft manufacturers, China has continued to buy foreign jetliners, placing orders for 102 planes from Airbus this month during a visit to France by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The ARJ21 already has had some success in the global market, attracting 240 orders from home and abroad. First deliveries of the aircraft are expected to be made next year, Commercial Aircraft told the official Xinhua news agency on Monday. Four aircraft were undergoing test flights while another two were being tested on the ground to earn airworthiness certificates from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Xinhua reported.
Jeremy Page
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