'The A320 project has been a model of in-depth international cooperation between Chinese and European aviation industrial players. The wing-equipping project started in 2009. Meanwhile, XAT has just delivered the 500th unit of A320 wings to Airbus, the two sides announced at the airshow. The agreement was signed in Beijing and witnessed by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2019, Airbus reaffirmed its commitment to its long-term strategic partnership with China's aviation industry, and signed a cooperation agreement with AVIC to enhance Airbus single-aisle aircraft fuselage equipping in Tianjin.

Major components and the internal system components were transported from Europe to Tianjin. XAT started the A320 fuselage-equipping work in Tianjin in June. The project, undertaken by Xi'an Aircraft International (Tianjin) Corp (XAT), a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corp of China Ltd (AVIC), and by local Chinese employees, signifies a new industrial cooperation milestone between China and Airbus. The first China-equipped fuselage of A320 family aircraft has been delivered to Airbus in Tianjin from a Chinese industrial player, Airbus said at the ongoing Airshow China 2021 in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on Wednesday. AVIC and Airbus jointly launched the A320 fuselage equipping project on June 22 in Tianjin.

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