Here how I've been told the story of the C919 by people working at Airbus. Airbus wanted to sell planes to China. China said OK, but you must build a factory in

Here how I've been told the story of the C919 by people working at Airbus. Airbus wanted to sell planes to China. China said OK, but you must build a factory in Tianjin and assemble the planes there, with Chinese workers and engineers. So Airbus did that. They then built the factory for the C919 in Shanghai, and there went most of the people who previously worked at the Airbus factory. :)