BEIJING Courtland Sutton Broncos Jersey , Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The first aircraft of the A330neo family has completed its maiden flight, and the new A330 Completion and Delivery Center in Tianjin will be able to deliver the new model in China, Airbus China confirmed on Friday.
The first jet in the A330neo family, an A330-900 variant, successfully landed at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in France on Thursday afternoon after its maiden flight Matt Paradis Broncos Jersey , said a press release from Airbus.
The A330-900 is expected to be delivered before it conducts 1,100 hours of test flights. Airbus plans for the A330-900 to obtain EASA and FAA Type Certification around mid-2018.
The wide-body A330neo family is composed of two models of A330-900 and A330-800 aircraft, with 287 and 257 seats respectively in a three-class configuration. To date, 12 customers worldwide have placed orders for a total of 212 A330neos.
On September 20, Airbus opened its A330 Completion and Delivery Center (CDC) in north China's port city of Tianjin Derek Wolfe Broncos Jersey , marking the first such center for its wide-body aircraft outside Europe.
The CDC is capable of completing and delivering the A330neo aircraft, according to Airbus China
As of this August, the Airbus fleet in China had exceeded 1,480 aircraft, including 202 from the A330 family.
BEIJING Chris Harris Jr Broncos Jersey , Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The world has come to a better understanding of the "Chinese Dream" over the past five years since Chinese President Xi Jinping put it forward to lay out an inspiring vision for realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
It is not confined to national boundaries but aligns with aspirations of the whole world for peace, sustained development and common prosperity.
PARADIGM FOR GLOBAL POVERTY ERADICATION
While speaking of his tour to a mountainous area in southwestern China's Yunnan Province in April, Javier Miranda, president of Uruguay's Broad Front party, could not but express amazement at the poverty alleviation efforts he saw there.
"A 60-year-old man has transformed his home into a minshuku (a kind of affordable Japanese hotel) with a dining hall Emmanuel Sanders Broncos Jersey ," he said. "He told me that his house used to have leaking roofs and blackouts a couple of years ago."
Over the years, the emergence of vocational schools, e-commerce and alternative planting has brought dramatic changes to the Lisus living there, an ethnic minority.
Similar success stories are pouring in from China's countryside. The past five years saw more than 60 million people lifted out of poverty, marking an epic chapter in the global battle against poverty.
China is set to complete building a moderately prosperous society by 2020 Demaryius Thomas Broncos Jersey , which requires the eradication of poverty. It means more than 10 million people have to be lifted out of poverty every year. That is nearly 1 million people per month, or 20 people per minute.
During his visit to China earlier this month, UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley said China can play a significant role in ending hunger around the world because it has proved its commitment and capability in the last few decades.
"China doesn't just talk about it. It acts. It gets it done," he said.
COMMITMENT TO COMMON DEVELOPMENT
Over the past five years, China has maintained its position as the world's second largest economy and contributed more than one third of the global economic growth. It has also become a major international investor and leading global trader.
An example of China's commitment to common development is the Belt and Road Initiative Royce Freeman Broncos Jersey , which was proposed by Xi in 2013.
The initiative, comprising the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, aims to build a trade, investment and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
It has been implemented in cooperation and alignment with participating countries' respective development strategies, making its projects beneficial to all involved.
The under-construction China-Laos railway will help turn land-locked Laos into a land-linked country; the 472-km Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway built with Chinese assistance and expertise becomes Kenya's single largest infrastructure project since its independence in 1963 Bradley Chubb Broncos Jersey , among others.
In a message sent to a Belt and Road forum in New Zealand on Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "clear synergies" exist between the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Both strive to "stitch countries together in networks of trade and mutual gain," and both aim to "deepen global connectivity," Guterres said.