With the development of China's economy, more and more people began to choose aircraft as a means of transportation when they went away, the scale of China's civil aviation market is expanding, and the demand for civil aviation passenger aircraft in the Chinese market is gradually expanding. In Boeing's view, as the only two companies in the world that can produce large civil aircraft, it will definitely be able to get a lot of orders in the Chinese market.
But what Boeing did not expect was that China not only developed a domestic large aircraft C919, the research and development of domestic long-range wide-body aircraft C929 is developing rapidly, but also chose to buy Airbus aircraft, placing orders for hundreds of aircraft in one go, but did not buy a single aircraft from Boeing.
This situation makes Boeing a little anxious, after all, in the civil aviation passenger aircraft market, Boeing and Airbus can be said to be a rivalry, and the Chinese market and many other markets have always chosen to buy aircraft from both sides. China's choice to buy Airbus' aircraft this time not only made Airbus' market share surpass Boeing's market share in one fell swoop, but also made Boeing feel a sense of urgency.
According to the latest news, US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo personally stood for Boeing during his visit to China and asked China to buy Boeing aircraft. Not only that, recently the US media said: China must buy Boeing aircraft, otherwise the supply of engines for China's C919 aircraft will be cut off.
Boeing returns to the Chinese market, US media: China must buy Boeing
In the civil aviation aircraft market, Boeing has always had an advantage, whether it is word of mouth or reputation in the international market, it is stronger than Airbus. However, due to the Boeing 737 aircraft crash, many civil aviation companies have doubts about Boeing's aircraft, and Boeing's 737 has been grounded in many countries, resulting in Boeing accumulating a large amount of inventory.
Boeing has always wanted to return to the Chinese market, and previously appointed Liu Qing as the president of Boeing China, responsible for Boeing's development and strategic cooperation in China. The new Boeing China president, who once managed 16 training centers and more than 5,000 employees around the world, can be said to be the top management within Boeing.
Boeing was confident that it was ready to return to the Chinese market and occupy more market share in China's rapidly growing civil aviation market. However, Boeing's unexpected blows appeared one after another, not only making Boeing's plan to return to the Chinese market completely failed, but even made Boeing panic.
Although China's self-developed and produced C919 is only a short-range narrow-body passenger aircraft, and only about 60% domesticated, some important parts such as engines are also purchased from abroad. However, this does not change the fact that China has independently developed domestic large aircraft, but more importantly, it means that COMAC has become the third civil aviation enterprise in the world that can independently develop and produce large aircraft.
The vice president of Boeing once said: If the parts of the aircraft are purchased back and assembled into aircraft and can be used, then there will not be only two companies in the world that can produce civil aircraft. It is not difficult to see from this paragraph that China's C919 has achieved a breakthrough from 0 to 1, and the development of China's large aircraft will only be more rapid after C919.
Not only that, China has also reached an order with Airbus for hundreds of aircraft, and Airbus has also decided to build a new final assembly line in China. This is not the kind of situation where you buy Airbus aircraft this time and choose Boeing aircraft next time, but it means that Chinese civil aviation companies will be more inclined to buy Airbus aircraft when choosing to buy aircraft, and Airbus and the Chinese market are more closely connected.
Then naturally, Boeing's market influence and market share in the Chinese market will be squeezed, and it is even very likely that China will no longer buy Boeing aircraft. Seeing that Boeing is about to lose the Chinese market, Boeing and the United States are beginning to be anxious, and even US Commerce Secretary Raimondo has begun to stand for Boeing.
When Raimondo visited China at the end of August this year, Raimondo took the lead in going to Boeing's Shanghai plant and held a press conference here. Raimondo's behavior is undoubtedly to make the outside world focus more on Boeing and win more support for Boeing.
Recently, some American media began to publish the remarks that China must buy Boeing aircraft, and even some American media said: If China does not buy Boeing aircraft, then the United States should block China's large aircraft industry, one of which is to cut off the supply of engines.
The rise of China's aerospace manufacturing industry
The United States wants to threaten China by cutting off the supply of Chinese engines, which is obviously a miscalculation. Although China's self-developed C919 does use engines and other parts provided by American companies, this does not mean that China does not have the ability to replace it on its own.
At present, China's self-developed Yangtze River 1000A engine has completed test flights, and this engine is completely in line with and even exceeds the engine currently in use by C919 in terms of performance. From this point of view, China's aerospace manufacturing industry is gradually rising, both in terms of production chain and advanced technology.
In addition to engines, China's technical level in the fields of parts, overall aircraft assembly, avionics systems and other fields has also made rapid progress, with the successful research and development of China's C919, C929 and other domestic aircraft. China is manufacturing aircraft to meet the needs of China's civil aviation market through domestic aerospace manufacturing, and the transfer of aircraft orders from abroad to China can allow more profits to flow into China, further promoting the development of China's aerospace manufacturing industry.