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A J-31 stealth fighter of Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (Reuters Photo)
The stealth fighter which was displayed in last month's air show at the Chinese city of Zhuhai created a lot buzz in the Chinese official media and Pakistan Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain said Islamabad is in talks with the Beijing to acquire it for Pakistan Air Force.
The J-31 fighter's chief designer, Sun Cong, said while J-31 has better performance than its US counterpart in some aspects, he admitted that it has some flaws.
"Basically the model has met our expectations," state-run Global Times quoted him as saying.
Lin also expressed the company's desire to change the global warplane market paradigm, which the US claims to dominate since it unveiled F-35 fighter in 2007.
"The world should be balanced. Good products cannot be owned by one group," Lin said.
The J-31 is the second domestically manufactured stealth fighter. Compared with the J-20 stealth fighter, the J-31 is a smaller twin-engine version.
"Both the J-31 and J-20 are products of China's move to develop stealth fighters. It is unrealistic for the two models to surpass their US counterparts in a short period of time," Wang Yanan, the deputy chief editor of Aerospace Knowledge magazine, told the daily.