China seen as indispensable to global supply chain
China DailyThe assembly line of the Airbus A320 family of aircraft in Tianjin. George Xu, CEO of Airbus China, said in an exclusive interview last month: "In the past, we had to ship all the big parts from Europe, which took 60 days., we worked with a Chinese partner, the Aviation Industry Corp of China, to produce the parts locally and deliver them 'door to door' to our Tianjin final assembly line." Thanks to strong local suppliers and a stable regulatory environment, the building of the second line of the Airbus A320 family Final Assembly Line Asia in North China's major industrial port city of Tianjin is in full swing. "There's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China," Cook said, noting that Apple will strengthen its long-term cooperation with its Chinese supply chain partners and work closely with them on green and smart manufacturing to achieve win-win results. To boost global supply chain cooperation, China will hold the second China International Supply Chain Expo in November this year after the first CISCE was successfully held in Beijing last year.