Nation's homegrown passenger jet C919 gets ready for more takeoffs

The nation's first homegrown passenger jet C919 is capable of meeting the growing requirements of the domestic civil aviation market and boost the country's manufacturing prowess globally, according to its manufacturer - the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd.

The company, also known as COMAC, expects to conduct more test flights of the C919 by the end of the year, according to Wu Yue, an assistant to the general manager of COMAC. By 2020, it plans to put six C919 aircraft on the market.

The C919 was rolled off the assembly line in 2015 and made its first successful test flight in May 2017. COMAC has so far received about 815 orders for the C919.