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    Air China flight CA723 takes off from the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, on August 12, 2026. China launched the first international route featuring its homegrown C919 aircraft, connecting Beijing with Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia. Photo: VCGAt around 4:58 pm on Wednesday, Air China flight CA723, a China-designed and manufactured C919 aircraft carrying 121 passengers, landed in Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, marking the latest milestone in the C919's commercial operation since its maiden commercial flight on May 28, 2023. The journey, which started in Beijing, was more than another takeoff, as it marked the C919's first international commercial flight and the beginning of regular international operations for China's homegrown large passenger aircraft.
As the C919 climbs higher and flies farther beyond China's borders, the runway behind it gradually disappears. What comes into focus instead is a much broader journey - one in which China's advanced engineering capabilities are reaching new markets, new partners and new possibilities around the world.
Historic moment
Hours before takeoff, a passenger surnamed Zhang, who was completing check-in procedures at Beijing Capital International Airport, said with a smile that he had stumbled into a "historic moment" by chance.
"I didn't pay much attention when I booked the ticket. I had heard that our homegrown C919 would soon begin international service, but I never expected it would be this very flight," Zhang told the Global Times on Wednesday. "I feel incredibly proud and excited."
From its maiden flight in Shanghai in 2017, when its first takeoff had many watching with bated breath, to its first scheduled international commercial service today, the C919's journey reflects China's sustained push to build up its capabilities in advanced aviation manufacturing. 
In recent years, China's top-level policies have strongly supported the development of high-end manufacturing. As the nation enters the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), Chinese high-end manufacturing is increasingly translating technological breakthroughs into globally competitive products and solutions to contribute more broadly to industrial development and connectivity worldwide, Chinese experts noted.
And the C919 program is one of China's most ambitious endeavors to push the frontiers of high-end manufacturing.
The C919 is China's first self-developed trunk jetliner in accordance with international airworthiness standards and registered with independent intellectual property rights, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday.
Industry experts said the C919's progress reflects the rapid advance of China's broader manufacturing capabilities. Only a handful of countries are capable of developing single-aisle mainline passenger jets, and even fewer can bring a certified aircraft into commercial service.
The C919 aircraft's biggest achievement is that China has built the capability to take a large passenger jet from the drawing board all the way to a certified commercial product, covering overall design, airframe manufacturing, system integration and airworthiness approval, Wang Ya'nan, editor-in-chief of Beijing-based Aerospace Knowledge magazine, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
Much of the aircraft's design, major structural manufacturing and key systems are completed in China. He said this marks a significant step forward in China's civil aviation manufacturing capability, placing the country among the few able to develop a modern trunk-line jet and bring it into commercial service. Its expanding operations now represent the next stage of that progress, he added.
As of Monday, the C919 aircraft had served 57 routes linking 25 cities and handled more than 7.5 million passenger trips, said the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), the jet developer, according to Xinhua.
However, the C919 still faces intense competition in a global market dominated by established players. Experts said, however, that its competitiveness could continue to strengthen as operational experience grows and China accelerates indigenous development of key components and systems.
The UK-based aviation industry publication Airline Economics noted on July 13 that Malaysia Airlines continues to consider Comac's C919 as a future fleet option, but Western regulatory certification remains a key requirement before the carrier would consider operating the Chinese narrowbody.
This has also brought into sharper focus the dual considerations of certification and market demand among potential international customers for the C919, as Wang said this is precisely why the C919's continued expansion into new routes and markets matters. 
As cross-border services expand, the C919 will also need to move closer to international operating standards by building a support network that goes beyond its domestic maintenance system to cover the full cycle of international operations, including regulatory coordination, overseas maintenance facilities and spare-parts logistics, Han Tao, an expert with China's civil aviation think tank, told the Global Times on Wednesday. 
Strengthening these capabilities will be crucial to supporting more international routes and meeting the standards and operational needs of potential overseas customers, Han said.
Meanwhile, industry observers noted that China is also stepping up efforts to advance key components and systems for large commercial aircraft, an area that remains a major challenge for most countries' aviation industries, with mature capabilities still largely concentrated in the US, the UK and France.
Pushing boundaries, sharing opportunities
As the C919 flies farther, it is carrying with it not only China's advances in high-end manufacturing, but a broader story of how Chinese innovation is moving from breakthroughs at home to new possibilities shared with the world.
Underpinning that shift is China's expanding advanced manufacturing capacity and increasingly complete industrial ecosystem, which are helping turn technological breakthroughs into scalable products, a Chinese expert said.
China is upgrading its traditional industrial base while cultivating new sectors that could shape future competitiveness, seeking to move beyond scale and cost advantages toward a more innovation-driven industrial model, injecting new impetus into the country's high-quality development, according to Xinhua's another report on July 21.
The nation's 15th Five-Year Plan underscores the development of a modernized industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone, the report said.
China's vast and diverse market provides advanced manufacturing with something equally important as technological capability: abundant real-world scenarios for testing, refinement and commercialization, Bian Yongzu, executive deputy editor-in-chief of Modernization of Management magazine.
This helps turn breakthroughs into mature, scalable products more quickly. Over the longer term, he said, advanced manufacturing will strengthen China's competitiveness by combining stronger industrial capabilities with complete supply chains and global cooperation, allowing more Chinese technologies, products and solutions to reach international markets, Bian said.
Aviation manufacturing, as a key pillar of high-end manufacturing, is benefiting from this broader push toward industrial upgrading and technological innovation.
At the fourth China International Supply Chain Expo held in Beijing in June, a complete aviation industry innovation chain stands out, spanning aviation materials, core forgings and low-altitude economy applications, drawing widespread attention to the participating companies, Xinhua reported.
Bian said that a complex project such as the C919 can drive coordinated upgrades across advanced materials, precision equipment, core components, system integration, logistics and skilled talent. In this sense, building a large commercial aircraft is a comprehensive test of a country's industrial depth, supply-chain coordination, and ability to turn sophisticated technologies into reliable commercial products.
。    AI摘要      民调显示卢秀燕在台中满意度居首，远超赖清德等人。凭借执政优势及灵活蓝白合作布局，她被视为国民党2028大选最具竞争力人选。         台中长期是台湾政坛关键摇摆选区，过往八次“大选”蓝绿各取四胜，票型走势堪称全台选举缩影。2026年台中市长选举不仅牵动县市执政版图，更被视为2028“大选”最重要前哨战，直接影响国民党参选人选布局。最新民调显示，台中市市长卢秀燕在台中拥有绝对民意优势，远超台湾地区领导人赖清德、国民党主席郑丽文等人，叠加灵活的“蓝白合作”布局，已成为国民党2028“大选”最具竞争力的人选。    新台湾智库17日公布最新台中市政及选战民调，2026台中市长选情方面，国民党参选人江启臣支持度达42.8%，小幅领先民进党对手何欣纯的36.1%。在当选看好度上，江启臣优势更为悬殊，以48.2%大幅胜过何欣纯的23.6%，守住台中蓝营执政底盘的概率更高。    纵观历年“大选”数据，台中拉锯特质极为鲜明。1996年、2000年、2008年、2012年四次“大选”，泛蓝阵营均在台中取得票型优势。2004年绿营小幅险胜，2016年、2020年、2024年连续三次“大选”，民进党拿下台中选票优势，赖清德2024年更是在台中以37.58%得票率，胜过国民党对手侯友宜的32.37%。蓝绿长期五五波的格局，让2026台中选战的结果极具战略参考价值，更直接左右卢秀燕冲击2028“大选”的资格与声势。    本次民调同时曝光了台中地区核心政治人物满意度，差距十分明显。台中市市长卢秀燕施政满意度高达53.9%、不满意度36.5%，是所有受访政坛人物中唯一突破五成支持度的人选。对比之下，赖清德满意度仅39.3%、不满意度48.5%，台行政机构负责人卓荣泰满意度37.9%，郑丽文仅有30.3%、不满意度高达49.1%。    针对2028“大选”模拟对战格局，民调凸显卢秀燕的绝对优势。若由卢秀燕对决赖清德，其台中满意度领先对手14.6个百分点。若换由郑丽文对战赖清德，郑丽文满意度反而落后赖清德9个百分点。

二 | 两人民意基础的巨大落差，让卢秀燕的2028年出线优势彻底拉开。    此外，民调也针对台中前后任市长执政表现进行对比，45.5%的市民认为卢秀燕施政更优，仅34.5%认可前台中市长林佳龙的执政成果。即便历经猪瘟疫情、近期毒油食安风波等重大争议事件，卢秀燕在台中依旧稳住过半支持，县市基本盘丝毫未被动摇。其深耕基层、深得中间选民信任的执政品牌，是现阶段郑丽文难以替代的核心政治资产。    在关键的“蓝白合”战略布局上，卢秀燕的操作也更为灵活务实。不同于台北市长蒋万安严守界线、不替民众党个别参选人站台的保守策略，卢秀燕将台中定位为全台首个“蓝白合作”示范区。她明确辅选核心以国民党候选人为主，但不封闭合作空间，民众党现任议员若发出邀请，她仍会站台力挺，持续维系跨阵营良性互动。    稳健的县市执政口碑、碾压级的区域民调优势、弹性的“蓝白合作”布局，多重优势加持之下，卢秀燕已稳居国民党2028“大选”热门人选之列。2026台中选战的最终结果，将进一步巩固其声势，成为她角逐“大选”的关键入场券。

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