C919 engine maker calls for more financing and projects
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THE Chinese engine maker for the nation’s first homemade jumbo aircraft needs more projects to better utilize the expertise it has hired as well as government funds to build more experimental facilities, a national legislator from Shanghai said yesterday.
AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co has hired top-level talents from across the world but it lacks sufficient research and development projects for them to use their expertise, said Shi Chao, vice chairman of the Shanghai-based company.
“The lack of projects will jeopardize the talents’ aspirations, and the company will find it hard to retain them,” Shi told a panel discussion on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
He also said the engine maker needs government financial support to develop more experimental facilities to test its products. Because the company lacks adequate facilities for experiments, many projects have been delayed for years.
The company is developing engines for the country’s first homemade jumbo jet, the 150-seat C919, which is set to make its maiden flight this year.
Founded in 2009, the engine maker, jointly funded by the Aviation Industry Corp of China, Shanghai Electric and Shanghai Guosheng Group, displayed its self-developed turbofan engine to be used on the C919 for the first time at the China International Industry Fair 2011.
But the first batch of C919 jets will initially fly with imported engines made by CFM International because the Chinese-made engine will still not be ready for commercial use.
“The engine has become one of the most difficult parts in the development of China’s jumbo jet,” AVIC has said in a statement.
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