Aviation & aerospace industry in Tianjin (1/5)

Workers assemble an Airbus A320 passenger plane in a general factory in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Sept. 25, 2012. Tianjin is shaping its aviation and aerospace industry based on the making of aircrafts, large rockets, satellites and space labs. The total output value of the city's aviation and aerospace industry reached 22.77 billion yuan (3.6 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011, growing 33.8 percent on a year-on-year basis. (Xinhua/Zhang Chaoqun)