This Day, That Year

Item from Aug 5, 1994, in China Daily: Engineers at the Shenyang Aircraft Corp work inside a fighter plane fuselage. During the past four decades the corporation, located in Liaoning province, has manufactured 6,500 military aircraft, half the nation's total production.

The corporation, China's biggest military aircraft producer, is turning to the civilian market, replacing jet fighters with automobiles as its prime source of profit.

China is gradually increasing private sector involvement in defense production.