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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Keywords

commercial aircraft industry, experiences and lessons, national strategy, technological innovation, supply chain resilience, airworthiness certification

Abstract

The commercial aircraft industry serves as a cornerstone for building a strong aviation country, a new engine driving economic growth, and a core carrier for upgrading the aviation industrial structure. Over more than 70 years of global industrial evolution, commercial aircraft development programs in most countries have encountered bottlenecks and withdrawn from the market, resulting in a duopoly dominated by the United States and Europe, which has accumulated abundant practical experience and historical lessons. At present, China’s commercial aircraft industry has entered a new phase of large‑scale production and international expansion. Nevertheless, it still faces challenges including bottlenecks in key core technologies, insufficient supply‑chain resilience, imperfect customer service systems, and slow progress in international airworthiness certification. This study systematically summarizes global experience and lessons from commercial aircraft industry development from five dimensions: national strategy, technological innovation, supply‑chain construction, market operation, and airworthiness certification. Combined with the practical bottlenecks of domestic industrial development, five countermeasures are proposed: first, strengthen national strategic guidance and establish a long‑term and stable support mechanism; second, uphold independent innovation in core technologies and increase investment in basic research; third, promote domestic substitution of supply chains across the whole industry chain in a tiered manner and foster high‑resilience industrial clusters; fourth, follow market‑demand orientation and establish a multi‑level commercial development system; fifth, improve the domestic airworthiness certification system and accelerate bilateral international airworthiness recognition. This study provides decision‑making references for China’s commercial aircraft industry to break development constraints and achieve high‑quality growth.

First page

2071

Last Page

2083

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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