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China challenges Airbus and Boeing’s dominance within the skies

China's first domestically developed airliner, the Comac C919, is Beijing's answer to the Airbus A320 and Boeing B737 and hopes to interrupt the dominance of Western planemakers within the aviation market. The Chinese passenger jet can carry 175 passengers and has a spread of 5,500 km and first rolled off the assembly lines in Shanghai in November 2015. Thepaper.cn also...