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China’s largest air show, held every two years in the southern city of Zhuhai, has overturned a comment that the occasion was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The China International Aviation and Aerospace Show is scheduled to take a position from November 10-15 and will feature giants that will add Boeing Co.
Reuters first reported Wednesday that the exhibition had been cancelled. A spokesman for the occasion showed the resolution with Bloomberg News, but then backed off in the commentary. Aeronautics still claims it will take a position in November.
The biennial exhibition was first held in 1996 and is used in China to showcase its wide variety of military equipment. Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. , or Comac, is sometimes also a major participant.
While the coronavirus epidemic has declined in China and economic activity is recovering, the country still has restrictions for many foreign visitors. The pandemic has led to the cancellation or postponement of primary foreign events, adding the Olympic Games in Japan, Cannes. Boston International Film and Marathon Festival.
The Singapore Airshow was one of the first aviation occasions to feel the effect of Covid-19. He took a position in early February, but the planners left with few contracts.
– With Dong Lyu and Evelyn Yu