Big piece of first Chinese jetliner completed

China moved closer to making its own large passenger jetliner as the first large part of the domestically developed C919 rolled off the assembly line on Thursday.

The forward fuselage, or front section, of the airplane, which typically includes the first-class cabin, will be delivered to the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China soon for its C919 narrow-body airliner, the county's latest attempt to break the Airbus and Boeing duopoly. The aircraft is set to compete against the Airbus A320, the Boeing 737 and the Irkut MS-21.

The component was developed and manufactured by Hongdu Aviation Industry Group in Jiangxi province, a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation's leading aircraft maker.