Manufacturing

Aviation Industry Corporation of China delivery its new helicopter model AC311.

A Chinese high-speed train set another world speed record during a test run Friday, breaking its own record set just two months ago. The Chinese Ministry of Railways calls the feat “a major achievement of China’s technology innovation,” but doubts linger over just how much of China’s bullet-train technology can be described as its own.

This new world record was accomplished during the test run for a train called the CRH380A. According to a report by state-owned Xinhua News Agency, the train hit a topspeed of 486.1 kilometers, or 302 miles, per hour on the tracks between Zaozhuang City of Shandong Province and Bengbu City in eastern Anhui Province, part of a new high-speed rail line that will eventually link Beijing and Shanghai.

The previous record was set in late September when another CRH380A train achieved a top speed of 416.6 kilometers per hour during a test run between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital city of east China’s Zhejiang Province.

China is ramping up production of unmanned aerial vehicles in an apparent bid to catch up with the U.S. and Israel in developing technology that is considered the future of military aviation.

Western defense officials and experts were surprised to see more than 25 different Chinese models of the unmanned aircraft, known as UAVs, on display at this week's Zhuhai air show in this southern Chinese city. It was a record number for a country that unveiled its first concept UAVs at the same air show only four years ago, and put a handful on display at the last one in 2008.

The apparent progress in UAVs is a stark sign of China's ambition to upgrade its massive military as its global political and economic clout grows.

Updated on 16^th Nov. 2010:

C919 get 100 planes contract

COMAC, AirChina, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, CDB Leasing and GECAS signed 100-plane contract in the first day of the 10th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai.

In order to enlarge the Chinese airplane maker's market, COMAC debut its first model C919 on The 10^th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai.

COMAC C919, designed and made by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd., is planed to make its first flight in 2014.