Trying times for local industry

Since a Chinese engineer named Feng Ru set up a company in Guangdong province to build aircraft in 1909, the Chinese aviation industry has experienced twists and turns in the past 105 years.

After World War II, the global aviation industry moved from military to civil aviation, and China tried to catch up with its Y10 four-engine narrow-body aircraft, developed in Shanghai in the 1970s.

However, the program was canceled in the early 1980s.