It'll be interesting to see if they can get their first generation of airliners off the ground and operating profitably quickly enough to embrace the coming wav

It'll be interesting to see if they can get their first generation of airliners off the ground and operating profitably quickly enough to embrace the coming wave of next generation composite aircraft. The C919 looks to be almost entirely traditional aluminum construction but the future of transport aircraft is looking to be increasingly based on carbon composites. The problem is that the industrial processes and supply chains for aluminum vs composite aircraft are extremely dissimilar. China however may have an edge here in the future as composites are still very labor intensive to construct.