中國國產C919大型客機橫空出世

　　11月5日口譯文章：中國國產C919大型客機橫空降生

　　經由幾十年的盡力，中國宣布了第一架大型客機，挑釁波音和空客兩大飛機制作商。

　　客機C919，內設168個坐位,續航3444英裏，有4000名高朋出席了這輛客機的揭幕典禮。

　　C919的試飛將在2016年舉行，但此次的開幕典禮對中國產業將會有相當主要的意義。

　　“一個巨大的國度必需有它本身的大型商用飛機，”該國的民用航空公司的李嘉祥說。

　　“中國的航空運輸業不克不及完整依附入口”他在上海浦東國際機場閣下的飛機庫揭幕典禮上說道。

　　BBC經濟欄目記者Andrew Walker說道，這架飛機代表著“中國經濟超出低本錢制作業，邁出了主要一步。”

　　C919的制作商，中國商用飛機公司(Comac)說，他們已接到了21個客戶的517架飛機的定單，個中大部門是中國航空公司，但也來自於租賃公司GE本錢航空辦事的。

　　自2008年新飛機的構想構成以來，新飛機的成長一向遭到耽擱影響。由於此次飛機試飛很勝利，C919將會在2019年投入貿易運行。

　　空客-波音兩家把持

　　中國自上世紀70年月就願望樹立屬於本身的民用飛機行業，其時毛澤東的老婆江青親身支撐這項籌劃。然則十年文革大難讓這個籌劃泡湯，到今朝只剩三架飛機。

　　波音公司最新的環球市場瞻望：提出中國總的民用飛機在接下來的二十年裏，需求總代價7800億美元，共5580架飛機。

　　C919將會和空客A320和波音737主打的單過道噴氣式飛機競爭市場。但中國飛機只是侵犯空客-波音兩大把持的開始。

　　中國商用飛機公司也籌劃和俄羅斯的結合航機運輸公司互助臨盆大型飛機C929，而且公司也在等待發明航空發念頭運行體系。

　　一家公司開辟了一種小型支線飛機，ARJ - 21，從而和占主導位置的巴西航空公司和加拿大的龐巴迪競爭市場。前兩兩架arj-21s客歲交付給中國航空公司。

　　外洋工場是C919的重要供給商，包含美國的Honeywell 和 Rockwell Collins。飛機的發念頭是由CFM國際公司，美國通用電氣與法國賽峰團體的合夥企業配合制造。

　　【參考譯文】

　　China has unveiled its first large passenger aircraft in decades, in an effort to mount a challenge to planemakers Boeing and Airbus.

　　The C919, with 168 seats and range of 3,444 miles, was displayed at a ceremony attended by 4,000 guests.

　　The C919's first test flight is not until 2016, but the unveiling was seen as having huge industrial significance.

　　"A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft," the country's civil aviation chief Li Jiaxiang said.

　　"China's air transport industry cannot completely rely on imports," he told the ceremony at a hangar near Shanghai's Pudong International Airport.

　　The BBC's economics correspondent Andrew Walker says the aircraft represents "an important step in China's economy moving beyond low-cost manufacturing".

　　The C919's manufacturer, Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac) says it has orders for 517 aircraft from 21 customers, most of them Chinese airlines, but also from leasing company GE Capital Aviation Services.

　　The development of the new aircraft has been hit by delays since the project was conceived in 2008. Assuming the test flights are successful, the C919 is due to enter commercial service in about 2019.

　　Airbus-Boeing duopoly

　　China has had ambitions to build its own civil aircraft industry since the 1970s, when leader Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing, personally backed a project. But the Y-10's heavy weight made it impractical and only three were ever made.

　　Boeing's latest World Market Outlook puts China's total demand for civilian aircraft over the next two decades at 5,580 planes worth a total of $780bn.

　　The C919 will compete in the market for single-aisle jets dominated by Airbus A320 and Boeing's 737. But the Chinese aircraft is just the start of a strategy to eat into the Airbus-Boeing duopoly.

　　Comac also plans a wide-body plane, the C929, in cooperation with Russia's United Aircraft Corp, and the company is also expected to create an aero-engine operation.

　　A separate state-owned company has developed a smaller regional jet, the ARJ-21, to compete in the market dominated by Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier. The first two ARJ-21s were delivered last year to a Chinese airline.

　　Foreign firms are key suppliers to the C919, including Honeywell and Rockwell Collins in the US. The aircraft's engines are made by CFM International, a joint venture between America's General Electric and France's Safran.