Strategic considerations for development of advanced composite technology for large commercial aircraft in China

The development of aviation industry, especially the large commercial aircraft industry, has boosted the
progress of composite materials technology. Applications of advanced composite materials have created new standard and market access threshold for next generation commercial aircraft. There has been a series of plans to develop and apply composite material technology in aircraft industry in the western contries. In China, research in this field is lagging behind. With the background of large aircraft development plan taken as national key project, the suggestions were put forward on accelerated development of composite technology from stratagem, organizational, technical and industrial aspects.