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First China-Made Passenger Jet Leaves Production Line

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the early-days dept.

ticho writes:

The first plane produced by a Chinese government initiative to compete in the market for large passenger jetliners has been unveiled in Shanghai.

The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) showed off its twin-engine C919 in a ceremony on Monday attended by some 4,000 government officials and other guests at a hangar near the Pudong International Airport.

For China, the plane represents at least seven years of efforts in a state-mandated drive to reduce dependence on European consortium Airbus and Boeing of the United States, and even compete against them.

"China's air transport industry cannot completely rely on imports. A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft," the country's civil aviation chief Li Jiaxiang told an audience of government and industry officials.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Tuesday November 03 2015, @03:22PM

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Tuesday November 03 2015, @03:22PM (#257967)

    Yeah and the best part of the whole "let's ship the crappy jobs to China and then live like Kings by selling them high-end stuff" is blowing up in their face now. What do you mean the Chinese are not that stupid and are building their own cars/planes/ships/trains/industrial machines/computers/phones/everything?

    We are all going to end up homeless, poor, starving, and importing Chinese everything up to and including pharmaceuticals before long. Good job "free market."

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:19PM (#258027)
    Ah but the virtual economy will expand hugely so our new jobs would be making virtual stuff and with the virtual currency we earn we would be living in virtual homes, wearing virtual clothing and eating virtual food. ;)

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by SanityCheck on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:32PM

      by SanityCheck (5190) on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:32PM (#258078)

      Hahaha that one hits pretty close to home.

      This is off-topic but at one point in my life I was so addicted to online video games that when I felt hungry in real life I would eat in the game, and that caused me not to feel hungry at least for a while. Of course it was an existence worse than death, since my addiction nearly consumed me.

      But luckily I made a recovery and I'm much wiser for it, and much more understanding of other people's addictions in general.

      • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday November 03 2015, @11:18PM

        by Gravis (4596) on Tuesday November 03 2015, @11:18PM (#258187)

        I was so addicted to online video games that when I felt hungry in real life I would eat in the game, and that caused me not to feel hungry at least for a while.

        now that is some serious escapism!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @10:31PM (#258177)

    Back in 2008, some heparin users died and it was blamed on adulterated heparin from China (processed in the USA).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_heparin_adulteration [wikipedia.org]