airbus' establishment as a consortium in december 1970 - the first step towards integration of europe's civil aviation industry - was implemented to provide the global market place with a single interface for the purchase of airbus aircraft. since then, airbus has steadily gained market share, and is now one of only two manufacturers in the market for commercial airliners seating more than 100 passengers. with an annual turnover of slightly over euro 20 billion in 200 4 , and the most modern and comprehensive airliner family in the world, airbus now consistently captures about half of all commercial airliner orders - a position it is committed to be maintained in the future as a fully integrated company.

headquartered in toulouse, france, airbus is owned by the leading european aerospace companiy: the european aeronautic defence and space company (eads) - born of the merger between three of airbus' former "partner" companies in the consortium, aerospatiale-matra of france, daimler chrysler aerospace of germany and casa of spain. i n addition to marketing, customer support, management and co-ordination of industrial and engineering, airbus has also become fully and directly responsible for all design, engineering, manufacturing and production functions. it is a truly global enterprise of some 55,000 employees, with fully-owned subsidiaries in the united states, china,japan and the middle east, spare parts centres in hamburg, frankfurt, washington, beijing, and singapore, training centres in toulouse, miami, hamburg and beijing and 130 field service offices around the world. airbus also relies on industrial co-operation and partnerships with major companies all over the word, and a network of some 1,500 suppliers in 30 countries.

airbus's partnership with the people's republic of china dates back to 1985, when caac regional office in shanghai, now china eastern airlines, became the first carrier in the country to introduce the european consortium's aircraft. contracts for chinese companies to build sections of airbus aircraft followed, as did further orders from chinese airline.

in 1994, airbus china company limited was officially established and airbus china beijing representative office started operation, which currently has a staff of about 130 chinese local and expatriates in china. customer service offices providing on-the-spot airline support include beijing, chengdu, guangzhou, hangzhou, jinan, lanzhou, nanchang, nanjing, qingdao, shanghai, ningbo, shenzhen, shenyang, dalian and xi'an, also hong kong. today, a us$80 million training and support centre, which is the most modern and first dedicated in china, is fully operational in beijing near the beijing capital airport. airbus (beijing) engineering centre was formally inaugurated in july 2005 in beijing . the facility will in particular perform specific design work for the a350 family aircraft. please visit our web sites to find further and detailed information at:

http://www.airbus.com and http://www.airbus.com.cn
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