Airbus in china

AIRBUS

Partie II : Son Implantation en Chine

Introduction

First, the aerospace market in China has just one ambition, no longer be regarded as “a world

factory”, or “a huge assembly shop” but now to assert itself as an economic power as such.

There are political speech that shows the way and pushes China to satisfy some independence

in the advanced technologies segment and the aviation market, aerospace seems the market

through which pass this independence.

This is a symbolic value to market that provides guarantees on the economic, geographic and

political insofar China says it wants to "hunt" on the lands of Americans and Europeans: in

fact, by the presence of American & European duopoly on this market, respectively Boeing &

Airbus, China intends to want to compete with the two aircraft manufacturers to meet the high

demand of Chinese market. The two giants do not hear it the same way every two and tend to

spread and considers China as the future of the aerospace market share that request.

Implantation

Airbus, arrived in China in order to compete with Boeing in the 1990s by the opening of

Airbus China offices in Beijing during that year.

During the same decade, a Beijing training center was established in 1998 in collaboration

with a government agency China Aviation Supplies Import and Export Group Corporation to

train drivers on the A320 and A330 / A340, as well as mechanics and crew members.

Airbus has also invested in a technical support center that stores approximately 25,000 spare

parts available for the entire Asia Pacific region.

Chinese jurisdiction is conditioned so that any foreign company present on the territory

chooses Chinese partners. Airbus has developed and its implementation especially through 4

Joint ventures covering training and support, engineering, composite materials, training, and

principal corresponding to the final assembly with the Final Assembly Line China (FALC)

Joint Venture : ABEC

The Joint Venture Airbus Beijing Engineering Centre (ABEC) is composed by Airbus China

Limited (70%), Hafei Aviation Industry Company Limited (HAI, 18%), Jiangxi Hongdu

Aviation Industry Company Limited (7%) and China Aviation Industry Corporation I (5%).

Joint Venture: Harbin Manufacturing Centre

Airbus and its partners have created in 2011 the Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite

Manufacturing Centre, a joint venture located in Harbin.

This is a plot of 33 000m² with equipment and advanced technology.

Joint-venture avec FALC

The joint venture takes root FALC in Tianjin, the assembly plant site : this is a joint venture1

and not a subsidiary2.

Airbus partners in FALC are grouped in a consortium of Tianjin Free Trade Zone – Tianjin is

one of four autonomous China’s municipalities and the China Aviation Industry Corporation,

AVIC.

 The plant site covers an area of nearly 550,000 square meters composed of assembly

hangars, offices but also from a delivery center. This site was built similarly to

Hamburg one and

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