Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with representatives of the C919 airliner project team and visited the achievement exhibition on September 30 at the Great Hall of the People, during which he gave high praise to the important staged progress scored by the team of the C919 research and manufacture project.

Xi stressed that having Chinese airliners fly in the sky embodies the will of our country, the dream of our nation and the expectations of our people. We must give full play to the strength of a new system for mobilizing resources nationwide, put safety first, make quality the top priority, and make consistent and persistent efforts to achieve greater breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, he also said.