Once more the visit in Europe the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will be provided an opportunity for Airbus to advance its business in the future first aviation market of the next decade

Once more, the visit in Europe the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, will be provided an opportunity for Airbus to advance its business in the future first aviation market of the next decade. Indeed, the aircraft manufacturer finalized two important contracts of industrial cooperation, which strengthens the position of China as international partner.

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The first, signed in Madrid Friday in the presence of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Spanish counterpart José Luis Zapatero, confirms award to China of 5 of the A350 programme, through a joint subsidiary owned 80 by its new aerospace holding Avic and 20 by Airbus. It will result in the construction of a new factory in Harbin, in northeastern China for manufacturing 2010 parts in composite materials for future long-haul jet.

The second agreement to be signed today in London, between another subsidiary of Avic, Xi'an Aircraft International, and Airbus, should focus on the manufacture of wings of Airbus aircraft in China, in the wake of the opening of the chain Assembly of Tianjin in September. Today, a part of these wings the metal structure is indeed manufactured in China by Xi'an Aircraft, and then sent to Broughton, in the United Kingdom, to be equipped before be returned by boat to Tianjin, after a detour by the Germany. The agreement signed today should help to eliminate these costly roundtrips by centralizing a small part of the production of wings in China.

Strategy of partnerships

The signing of these two agreements, the first had been announced as of July 2008, is part of the partnership strategy which has already allowed Airbus to 4 of market share in China in 1995 to 39 in 2008, with 438 devices in service late August and more than 400 aircraft in command.

With the new plant of Harbin, Airbus has thus two centres of production joint venture in China, as well as a Centre for training and maintenance in Beijing, in addition to contracts for suppliers. Total purchases of services and parts seconded to Airbus in China should thus spend $ 70 million last year to 200 million in 2010 and 450 million by 2015, is a level equivalent to that of Boeing is not factory in China but is nevertheless much work industry Chinese and holds even greater than that of Airbus market share.

A simple option to purchase

Only shadow to the table: the signing of the agreement on the A350 is not accompanied the lesser firm command. Currently, Airbus must therefore always simply a simple option to purchase the 20 aircraft signed in 2020, while its competitor Boeing has already sold several dozen copies of its 787 in China. But the aircraft manufacturer has high hopes for a first order in the next few months, at a great next appointment as the output of the first A320 assembled in China, next summer.

The first Chinese A320 which will also be the first built outside Europe should make its first test flight in may for delivery early July to Chinese domestic company, which has already begun to advertise for this device "made in China". Four other aircraft should out of Tianjin plant this year and a dozen in 2010, according to recent statements by an official Chinese, all destined for the Chinese market.