China has made a breakthrough in batch export of new high-tech electromechanical products, signing sales contracts with countries, including Zimbabwe, for 17 Xinzhou-60 aircraft, as learned from the delivery ceremony held on Friday at the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Co in Xi'an, according to People's Daily on Monday.

The Xi'an-based company is the designer, developer and tester of Xinzhou-60, the new generation regional passenger aircraft that has reached or been close to international standards in terms of safety, comfort and ease of maintenance. They feature low sales price and oil consumption.

The sales target of about 300 Xinzhou-60 aircraft is hopefully to be achieved around 2020 according to the market survey and analysis released by the China Aviation Technological Import and Export Corporation (CATIEC).

At the delivery ceremony on the same day, Zimbabwe's ambassador to China signed the test certificate for the third plane of the first batch on behalf of the country's national airlines. Prior to this, China delivered two homemade regional aircrafts to Air Zimbabwe, and they are operational in that nation. Air Zimbabwe gave high evaluation to the aircraft, believing that the planes are good in performance with low oil consumption and convenient maintenance.

By People's Daily Online