Airbus has announced plans to enhance its long-term collaboration with China’s aviation industry, ramping up single-aisle production at its Tianjin final assembly line and forming new ties with Chinese suppliers.
“The agreement signifies that industrial cooperation between Airbus and China has expanded from the assembly of structural parts to more complicated fuselage systems. In the future, the production rate of the fuselage equipping will be in line with the Tianjin center, and reach a production rate of six aircraft a month,” George Xu, CEO of Airbus China, said, as cited by China Daily.
The agreement for fuselage equipping was signed during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to China in early September.
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