China has been inviting bids for three categories of basic tasks in preparation for launching an assembly plant of Airbus A320 jets in north China's largest port city of Tianjin.

 

A spokesman with Tianbao Engineering Consulting Co. said his company had been entrusted by Tianjin Office for Construction of Airport Logistics Processing Area to run an ad for details of the bid.

 

The tasks include construction of a temporary road, ground leveling, the supervision of the final-assembly line, as well as other infrastructure construction and designing of the final assembly line and its auxiliary industries.

 

The National Development and Reform Commission announced on June 8 a new Airbus A320 assembly plant would be located in the Binhai New District of Tianjin.

 

And upon completion, the Tianjin plant will be Airbus' first final-assembly line ever built outside Europe.

 

(Xinhua News Agency August 4, 2006)