As it is today, the aircraft manufacturing industry is dominated by two major players. You got the American player Boeing, and the European player Airbus. The two companies have been duking it out for decades while fighting off new market entrants.

One of those new entrants is Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China or COMAC. It is a Chinese stateowned company trying to challenge Boeing and Airbus in the commercial aircraft space. It represents China’s most concerted effort for this market yet.

In this video, I want to trace China’s recent work in breaking into the supercompetitive commercial aircraft manufacturing industry and why it has been so hard for them to make ground.

Edits and Errata:
3:04 I want to add that China’s granted license was for MD80 assembly.

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