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China has launched its first aircraft-engine manufacturer in an attempt to wean itself off Western suppliers.
The state-owned Aero-Engine Group of China was created by combining a group of existing aircraft-engine companies, according to local media reports.
It has about 50bn yuan ($7.5bn) in registered capital and will develop both military and commercial engines.
China already makes its own planes, but has struggled for decades to develop engines that meet global requirements.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @08:27PM
China has launched its first aircraft-engine manufacturer
Or
was created by combining a group of existing aircraft-engine companies
So um...
Note that its not CoolHand's fault nor the mods fault, its the fault of the BBC itself in the linked article.
The Beeb used to set the standard for professionalism in journalism (which is not quite the oxymoron it is on this side of the pond) but around the time of the scottish independence vote and brexit, I noticed they shamefully went full on propaganda mode and since then I've noticed the stiff upper lip seems to be cracking more and more often. Whatsup with that? Like is their funding and staffing all going away or political officers are screwing up the works or perhaps I'm just paying more attention to the BBC in an attempt to avoid clickbait American psuedo-news?
PROBABLY what the BBC meant, is China's first military grade engine mfgr (well, very optimistically) made by combining a bunch of small time engine companies.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @10:13PM
You complain about BBC news coverage. I'll note that BBC is only parroting China's media reports here (as they say in their article), so they are necessarily limited in what they know and can report upon. Would you rather they say nothing at all?
What I expect happened was there used to be several manufacturers of pistons, bearings, chambers, and whatever else is needed for an engine. General Electric and whomever would buy components from them and assemble as needed.
China has combined them all together to actually have a complete engine manufacturer.
As a kludgy analogy, but imagine Dell were to acquire Seagate, Corsair, and AMD, so they could become a "computer manufacturing company."
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:58AM
I looked at a couple of stories from official media outlet CCTV. They don't say this is the country's first manufacturer of aircraft engines of any kind, but rather the first ones for big commercial jets:
Until this point, the country did not make large commercial jet engines of its own.
--http://english.cctv.com/2016/08/28/VIDEf9BSdn7sdPe4GTfrXuRt160828.shtml [cctv.com]
It's part of a larger initiative (which, I'm guessing, includes the Hinckley Point C project):
The government’s overhaul of state-owned enterprises to push Chinese products and services up the value chain has prioritized aircraft engines, high-speed rail and nuclear power [...]
China’s cabinet, Beijing municipal government, the Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) and Commercial Aircraft Corp of China are investors in the new Aero-Engine Group of China, combining a number of smaller businesses and their 96,000 employees to focus on designing, manufacturing and testing of aircraft engines [...]
--http://www.cctv-america.com/2016/08/29/china-launches-state-owned-aircraft-engine-maker [cctv-america.com]
That second story includes a photo of the Chinese-made ShenyangWS-10 engine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-10 [wikipedia.org]