Boeing to Launch Its First 737 Plant in China
David Wagman | March 13, 2017Boeing and Chinese aviation manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd (COMAC) will start to build a Boeing 737 completion center in eastern China's Zhoushan city at the end of March, according to official state media. The plant is scheduled to make its first delivery in 2018.
China's Xinhua news agency reported this is Boeing's first overseas facility as part of its 737 production system, and designed to deliver 100 Boeing 737 planes a year.
The Chinese completion center could deliver its first aircraft in 2018.Airbus, Boeing's primary European rival, has had assembly plants in China since 1994.
In the joint-venture completion center, Boeing's 737 aircraft will be installed with flight entertainment systems and seats. The plant in Zhoushan, almost 300 km southeast of Shanghai, also will provide services such as coating, repair, and maintenance.
Boeing and COMAC signed an agreement in October 2016 to set up the Zhoushan plant. The plant will include the 737 completion center, a joint venture of Boeing and COMAC, and the 737 delivery center owned by Boeing.
To accommodate aircraft manufacturing in Zhoushan, Putuoshan Airport in the city is undergoing a 750 million yuan ($108 million) expansion to become an international airport.
In addition to supporting Boeing, the aviation base in Zhoushan will also develop an entire industrial chain for aircraft manufacturing, with the capacity of assembling, delivering and modifying 600 aircraft a year by 2025.
Zhoushan is an archipelago and island city in Zhejiang Province, which has the largest fishery in China and boasts strong shipbuilding, tourism and service industries.
Is there blame and/or credit for Herr Rump in this loss and/or gain of American jobs?
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The blame is only on Boeing for losing American jobs.
There goes the rest of our technology and manufacturing techniques. next there will be layoffs here in the USA. This is not the way to make America great again.
Why don't we invest and build a new highly automated factory here in the US and build the planes so cheap that China will have to buy them from us. Once they get their factory up and running Boeing will become a big dinosaur.
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Boeing is getting killed by the unions in Washington state. They tried to open a plant elsewhere in the U.S. but president Obama wouldn't let them so that he could support the unions. Since they were stopped, they looked elsewhere. This deal with China has been in the making for over a year.