China to promote FC-31 for export

State-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has established an office to actively promote foreign sales of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) FC-31 fifth-generation multirole fighter aircraft, the company said.

AVIC said in a report published in mid-February that, with resources from SAC, Chinese research institute, and China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation, the new SAC deputy general manager, Zhan Qiang, has established an office that will pursue a ‘self-oriented active promoting’ tactic to achieve FC-31 exports to targeted countries as well as domestic sales.

The report says that Zhan has made significant progress in assessing the export market for the low-observable FC-31, a scale model of which was on display at Airshow China 2021 held from 28 September to 3 October 2021 in Zhuhai.