Dhaka, Oct. 23 -- European planemaker Airbus on Wednesday (Oct 22) opened its second final assembly line (FAL) for A320-family aircraft in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, underscoring its confidence in the growth of China's aviation market and the strength of its supply chain in the country.

The inauguration comes as 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of cooperation between Airbus and China's civil aviation sector, when the first Airbus aircraft, an A310, was delivered in 1985.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury, speaking in Tianjin, said that in spite of difficulties, like Covid or other geopolitical challenges, "we are here, we continue to invest and we continue to ramp up," Faury said, as observed by a Global Times reporter on site in Tia...