France trusts to join in China’s large plane venture
The first visit to China since 1982 the French National Assembly Bernard said lately in Tianjin, France and China adhere large significance to collaboration in the area of aerospace. French receptionist of state for foreign trade Anne made it clear that France would like to take part in China’s large airplane project. “I called for more French businesses to arrive to China, escorted by the development of China’s aviation industry. This will permit them to elaborate market share and enhance our competitiveness.” Bernard said.
The two senior officials of France in the Tianjin Binhai New Area of the “2009 Tianjin, China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition Fair trade” to make here. Show by the Tianjin Municipal Government, China International Trade Promotion, France BCI group organized more than 10 exhibitors of 346 countries aerospace companies and associations involved in aircraft manufacturing, aviation electronics, aviation mechanics, aviation new materials, aerospace defense , aviation research and development, aviation logistics and other fields.
Bernard at the starting commemoration said that the present “full validation of just how earnestly France and China in the paddocks of aerospace, to confirm the world to China’s aviation development just how earnestly the building.” He said that China and France are happy to observe that 40 years of support in the aviation paddock was a many triumph, and support has become an more and more extensive and more deep. Airbus A320 in Tianjin to invest large aeroplane production vegetation, is a icon of Sino-French support project.
Tianjin Airbus terminal assembly line in Hamburg, Germany and France, following Toulouse’s third after the terminal assembly line, this will be the first buyer deliverance of aircraft. Airbus major vice head and head of China Bolong, said today that more colleagues would like to gain enterprise chances here.
Bernard also took the initiative to talk about China’s first completely self-designed and built aircraft Extension - ARJ21 aircraft. He said, I believe that will attract international attention ARJ21, sold to the international market, but also hope to see China’s own production of more than 100 large aircraft.
“We see that China’s large aircraft and the building of effective, and there will be a lot of the future, France would very much like to contribute in this regard.” France, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Anne-Marie Idrac held a news conference in Tianjin, said. She said that the Sino-French aerospace co-operation was very good. Airbus assembly line in Tianjin has become an example of cooperation between the two countries is due to commercial interests and industrial co-operation together closely. “We are very pleased with the European symbol of technology and the characteristics of the aircraft assembled in China to achieve.”
In answer to a inquiry by this reporter, she apparently said that France proposes to take part in the China head agency in Shanghai’s household financial airplane large airplane tasks, with the competent administration of China about the issue, asked for China to drive representatives to the June The Paris Air Show to talk about space cooperation. At present, French businesses are employed with China, “to fly” contact.
French Embassy Economic and Fiscal Affairs Minister Counselor Hubert TESTAR advised this reporter that France strategies to deliver China’s large aeroplane mechanical devices, using electronics instrumentation and so on.
Embassy of France to the press presents a number of statistics: the first quarter of 2009, the French investment in China grew 35 percent year-on-year, French companies operating in China reached 25 billion euros. Although the automotive industry and other sectors of the layoffs, but the areas of retail demand in the employment rise in the employment of French companies in China currently employs 25 million people.
Anne-Marie Idrac incisive out that the fresh heating of bilateral political family, monetary and trade support will play a job in endorsing new.