Yangtze River Delta region makes progress in integrated development

Beijing Review | Sep 14, 2022 at 2:00 AM
  • On August 1, the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), headquartered in Shanghai, announced that the single-aisle C919 passenger jet it manufactured had undergone all the test flights necessary for obtaining a national airworthiness certificate.
  • The region will be developed into an important gateway for opening up in the Asia-Pacific region, a globally important center of modern service industry and advanced manufacturing industry, and a globally competitive world-class city cluster.
  • The industrial scale of the region’s integrated circuit accounted for nearly 60 percent of the national total, that of the biomedicine and artificial intelligence industries accounted for one third of the national total, and the region’s output of new-energy vehicles accounted for 38 percent of the national total.