天空才是中国航空业的极限

COMAC, an airplane manufacturing consortium, was established in 2008 with the purpose of reducing China's high reliance on foreign airplane makers Boeing and Airbus.

The consortium's engineers are now busy working at the production base in Shanghai.

They have already built one plane - and are hoping to sell aircraft to some of the world's biggest airlines in the future.
Jack Lee is a safety manager of COMAC.

"It is the first time in China's history to manufacture aircraft by the hands of Chinese."

However, Lee says there are still some safety obstacles for the manufacturer to navigate.

"The safety level is the same as our other aircraft flying in the sky. Same regulations, same requirements, exactly."

As China is broadcast to be the fastest-growing market for air travel, Airbus wants get a share of it.

Andreas Ockel, a manager from Airbus China explains:

"we've delivered 150 aircraft to our Chinese customers and all of them have been on time and on quality. Right now, building an aeroplane here is just as easy as building it in Hamburg. But there's also an eagerness here to get a home-grown plane off the ground - something that's been promoted at Beijing's annual air show."

And Comac is attracting interest.

The owners of British Airways and Europe's Ryanair have also reportedly shown interest in Comac.

For CRI, I'm Lucy Du.