Airbus factory to add 300 jobs in Tianjin

The Airbus factory in Tianjin will create 250 to 300 jobs in the port city, when its A330 completion and delivery center is operational in the fourth quarter of 2017, said a top company executive.

Philippe Pezet, vice-president for human resources of Airbus Group China, said many will move over from the A320 aircraft final assembly line, with 10 percent of the final total expatriate workers. But that still means that Airbus, which is based in Toulouse, France, will take on 150 new employees.

"It's the first time we will be able to have industrial activities on a long range, big aircraft in Tianjin," Pezet said.