He is an Indian+China hater. The most stupefying mixture. Hence, he will spin any development into a CCP or demography issue.
On another thread, you have taken this guy seriously and you and
@Abacin offered him a thorough lesson but has he even heard 1% of what you said? You have brought up a number of issues and responses, he ignored what he did not like and kept picking on the same lines of argument from the start to the end.
He has not because he is not programmed so. He is programmed for something else.
This is this sort of Indian logic; representative of their own government and ideology. It does not progress although it is very chaotic and flammable.
Some poster already said, in their infancy, any new industries need home base support. This is the advantage of the large population countries with enough purchasing power. With domestic consumption, money flows in and the required components of an entire system are put in place, from logistics to maintenance. And the system slowly perfects itself.
It is not that no Boeing or Airbus fallen down, killing hundreds of people over the time. Human/mechanical errors/accidents are anticipated. The advantage of these global giants is that they already established the entire ecosystem. They all the support services, including effective public relations.
COMAC won't necessarily be a market overhauler, but yet another competitor within the established framework. There is no reason to invent the wheel if the current wheel is riding smoothly.
What is key as
@phancong said above is not to let foreigners dominate China's very lucrative market. Just as what we did with HSR, we need to get most of the profit if there is a profit to be made.
Home front is always the most important. Foreign fronts will take time. China is still a developing nation.
I guess that's the regular learning and developing curve. There are so many fronts from transportation to computing that China lag behind due to late industrialization. What is critical is to overcome the present bottleneck and start from somewhere. Things never come so easily. Think about your new domestic (old discarded Cadillac model) car. Got to start from somewhere.
I am still an HSR fan, by the way, if I had a chance to travel across China. So I would support further HSRization in China.
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C919 gets ICBC's backing in marketing globally
November 3, 2015
Unveiling of the first prototype of the C919 is celebrated. The plane was off the assembly line on Nov 2, 2015 in Shanghai. [Photo/China Daily]
ICBC Financial Leasing Co, China's biggest financial leasing company, is to start promoting sales of the domestically built C919 airliner－the narrow-body aircraft being produced by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. The first prototype of the C919, to be used for test flights, was off the assembly line on Monday at COMAC's Shanghai factory.
ICBC Financial Leasing is so far the C919's biggest individual launching client, having placed 45 orders. But Cong Lin, its chairman, says it will be taking an active part in promoting the aircraft internationally, after the two sides signed a strategic agreement at the 2015 China Aviation Expo in Beijing in September.
Cong said some of its other foreign clients had expressed interest in placing orders for the C919, after
Bangkok-based City Airways recently signed an option for 10 of the aircraft through ICBC Financial Leasing.
"The City Airways' orders show the international market is receptive to China-made aircraft," Cong said.
Jiang Bo, the head of aviation finance at ICBC Financial Leasing, said that with an established network of more than 40 overseas clients across six continents, the company has a strong advantage in promoting the C919 globally,
"Our experience on the international market could prove invaluable for this and other China-made airplane manufacturers, in their efforts to expand globally," Jiang said.
The leasing company's international talents offer financial and consulting services to overseas clients in both Beijing and Dublin of Ireland, which is an important center for global aircraft leasing industry, Jiang said.
The company is also able and willing to provide financing solutions to other C919 clients, he said.
Initially, COMAC has focused on C919 sales at home and in the Asia-Pacific and Africa, but Jiang now expects that to expand quickly to other markets.
"We are including the promotion of the C919 within our own global marketing activities," he said, "but we are realistic that we have to be patient."
Jiang said the C919 could prove a hard-sell globally given that it is still only at the test-flight stage, with conceivably many months of testing ahead before the aircraft can start being built in numbers and delivered.
Industry insiders have confirmed that potential international clients have been hesitant, and suggested that COMAC has been slow too with its own global marketing.
Zhang Yugui, dean of the school of economics and finance at Shanghai International Studies University, said: "It has focused for years on manufacturing, but a solid marketing and service infrastructure is yet to be put in place."
