--FILE--Vista di Airbus in Asia la formazione presso il Centro Aerospaziale Seletar Park a Singapore, 6 settembre 2017. La Cina ha iniziato il suo viaggio storico di re
--FILE--View of the Airbus Asia Training Centre at the Seletar Aerospace Park in Singapore, 6 September 2017. China began its historic journey of reform and opening-up in 1978. In the past 40 years, the drive has lifted the country into the world's second largest economy. Over the past 40 years, China's GDP has averaged an annual growth rate of around 9.5 percent in comparable prices. The long-held policy not only brings China rapid and sustainable development, but also enables the country to have contributed greater momentum to global economy and created huge opportunities for multinationals. Among them is Airbus, Europe's largest aircraft manufacturer. Airbus embarked on its partnership journey with China more than three decades ago. In 1985, China bought its first Airbus aircraft; in 1994, the group established its first official presence in Beijing. "I am particularly proud of this history, " Airbus CEO Tom Enders told Xinhua in a recent interview. Enders noted the partnership between China and Airbus had taken a leap forward over the past 10 years, with the group's first final assembly line outside of Europe beginning operation in Tianjin in 2008. The group has remarkably expanded the number of its commercial aircraft sold to China. By late 2017, there were more than 1, 500 Airbus commercial jetliners in service in China, and deliveries to the country represent nearly a quarter of Airbus' total jetliner production.
