China’s New Jet Will Seek Share of World’s Largest Aircraft Market
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China is set to become the world’s largest market for aircraft and the nation’s first domestically developed large jet will aim to grab a share of that business.
The country will need 6,810 aircraft valued at more than $1 trillion in the two decades through 2035, Boeing Co. predicted in September. That would make China the biggest single-country market for planes, and the third-largest as a region, behind Europe and North America.