In connection with its successful bid to supply the C919’s cabin core system, Rockwell Collins will collaborate with the Shanghai Aero Measurement-Controlling Research Institute (SAMRI) in the design, development, and integration of the system. According to Rockwell statements, the new system will leverage innovations from the Rock-well Collins Venue Cabin Management System to develop a “next-generation backbone” for the C919’s cabin core system. SAMRI is a subsidiary of AVIC (“Rockwell Collins Selected to Provide Cabin Core System for COMAC C919,” 2010).
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Sikorsky’s industrial cooperation with China dates back to 1995, when a Chinese consortium led by the Changhe Aircraft Industries Corpo-ration and the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute participated in Sikorsky’s Team S-92 project and undertook the design and manufacture of the S-92’s tail pylon and horizontal stabilizer. China’s role in the project is limited, and the project has not led to significant Sikorsky sales in China. As of 2008, China had purchased only one S-92A in the offshore oil support role, and between 1998 and 2008, Sikorsky sold only 17 medium helicopters and 24 light heli-copters in China (Zhang, 2008, p. 38; Zhao and Ma, 2009, p. 63). Nevertheless, it is claimed that the project helped the Chinese helicop-ter industry take a major step forward in modern manufacturing and industrial management techniques. After a decade of relatively slow development, Sikorsky’s Chinese presence received a major boost in June 2006, when Sikorsky signed an MOU with AVIC II for collabo-ration on the development and production of civil helicopters. Several subcontracts and joint ventures soon followed.
In 2003, Sikorsky established a joint-venture subsidiary in Shang-hai with a Chinese private-sector developer of light and ultralight heli-copters. Initially, the company was engaged primarily in providing maintenance services and training classes to Sikorsky’s Chinese cus-tomers. In January 2008, the joint venture was reorganized, with AVIC joining as the lead Chinese partner through its subsidiaries Changhe Aircraft and Shanghai Xinsheng. The reorganized company had $6 million in registered capital, with Sikorsky holding a 49-percent stake. The company expanded its business to provide supply-chain management services, as well as post-sales customer support to both Sikorsky’s and Changhe’s civil fleet in China (“AVIC II Joins Shanghai Sikorsky,” 2008; Chen, 2008).
Non-U.S. Companies
Airbus SAS
Airbus China opened its Beijing office in 1990. It now employs more than 270 people in China, the majority of whom are Chinese nation-als, and operates a string of local customer-support offices to provide assistance to airlines. Airbus subsidiaries in China include the Hua-Ou Aviation Training Centre in Beijing; the nearby Hua-Ou Aviation Support Centre; the Airbus (Beijing) Engineering Centre (ABEC), where design work on new Airbus programs is conducted; and, newly established in October 2009, a logistics center in Tianjin to optimize supply-chain management for all of Airbus’s production facilities in China (“Airbus in China”).
　
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