首架中國製造客機首次商業飛行
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people in pandacostumes pose in front of a Chengdu Airlines ARJ21-700 plane before its firstcommercial flight at Chengdu Shuangliu InternationalAirport in Chengduin southwestern China's Sichuan Province Tuesday, June 28, 2016. TheARJ21-700, made by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC),is China'sfirst homegrown regional airliner and can seat 78 to 90 passengers depending onits configuration. (Ding Ting/Xinhua via AP) NO SALES
該照片由中國新華社發佈，2016年6月28日，星期二，在中國西南部四川省的成都雙流國際機場，人們在成都航空公司的ARJ21-700客機首次商業飛行之前，裝扮成大熊貓，並在ARJ21-700前擺出熊貓姿態。ARJ21-700由中國商用飛機有限責任公司(COMAC)製造，是中國首架支線飛機，依據不同外形，可裝載78到90名乘客。（丁婷/新華社報道，源自美聯社）不出售。
SHANGHAI (AP) — The first regional jetproduced in China'sinitiative to compete in the commercial aircraft market made its debut flightTuesday carrying 70 passengers.
上海（美聯社）——中國製造的第一架支線飛機首次投入到民用客機市場競爭中來，並於週二首次飛行，承載70名乘客。
The ARJ21 — or Asian Regional Jet for the21st Century — is intended to make its state-owned manufacturer, CommercialAircraft Corp. of China, acompetitor to Bombardier Inc. of Canadaand Brazil'sEmbraer SA.
ARJ21客機——或21世紀亞洲支線客機——中國打算以此來使中國商用飛機有限責任公司這一國有製造商，與加拿大龐巴迪飛機制造廠以及巴西航空工業公司競爭。
"The first flight of the ARJ21 marksthe beginning of commercial, or passenger, operations for the ARJ21 andsignifies the first time a domestically made regional jet has been used by aChinese airline," said the COMAC chairman, Jin Zhuanglong.
中國商用飛機有限責任公司董事長金壯龍說“ARJ21的首次飛行標誌着ARJ21商業用途，或者載客用途，或者運營作用的開始，並意味着中國航空公司首次使用國內生產的支線飛機”。
The ARJ21 initiative was launched in was scheduled to deliver its first plane in 2007 but that was pushed backdue to technical problems.
ARJ2提議在2002年推出。計劃在2007年製造出第一架飛機，但由於技術問題，該計劃被推遲完成。
A full-size jetliner under development byanother state-owned company, the C919, is aimed at competing with Boeing Airbus. After delays blamed on manufacturing problems, the C919 is due tofly this year and enter service in about 2019.
另一國有公司正在研發另一種大型客機C919,並打算與波音公司及空中巴士競爭。由於製造問題， C919預計在今年試飛，2019投入民用服務。
Boeing forecasts China's total demand for civilianjetliners over the next two decades at 5,580 planes worth a total of $780billion.
波音預測，在接下來的二十年裏，中國需要5,580架民用飛機，總價值爲7800億美元。
