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Ready for Takeoff : China's Advancing Aerospace Industry.
Title:
Ready for Takeoff : China's Advancing Aerospace Industry.
Author:
Cliff, Roger.
ISBN:
9780833052087
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (144 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One - Introduction -- Methodology -- Structure of the Report -- Chapter Two - China's Commercial Aircraft Market -- Current Conditions -- Projections of China's Future Commercial Passenger Aircraft Market -- Factors Other Than GDP Growth -- Domestic Versus International Traffic -- Chapter Three - China's Current Commercial Aircraft Production -- Commercial Passenger Aircraft -- Domestic Designs -- Foreign Designs -- Helicopters -- Fixed-Wing General Aviation Aircraft -- Chapter Four - The Role of Foreign Firms in the Development of China's Commercial Aviation Manufacturing Industry -- Chinese Government Policies Toward Foreign Aviation Manufacturing Companies -- Joint Ventures and Cooperative R&D Activities -- U.S. Companies -- Non-U.S. Companies -- Extent to Which China-Based Production Supplies U.S. Aerospace Firms -- U.S. Companies -- Non-U.S. Companies -- Other Sources of Western Aerospace Technology -- Chapter Five - China's Space Capabilities -- Launch Vehicles -- Satellites -- Communications Satellites -- Weather Satellites -- Civilian Earth-Observation Satellites -- Military Imagery Reconnaissance Satellites -- Position, Navigation, and Timing Satellites -- Other Satellites -- Assessment -- Chapter Six - Conclusions -- The Rate at Which China's Aerospace Sector Has Developed -- Future Developments -- Potential to Contribute to China's Military Capabilities -- Implications for U.S. Security Interests -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
An assessment of China's aerospace manufacturing capabilities and how China's participation in commercial markets and supply chains contributes to their improvement. It examines China's aviation and space manufacturing capabilities, government efforts to encourage foreign participation, transfers of foreign technology to China, the extent to which U.S. and foreign aerospace firms depend on supplies from China, and their implications for U.S. security interests.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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