China has made huge achievements since reform and opening up in 1970s and it is playing a significant role in global economy, said Vache Gabrielyan, former Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia on Friday.
Gabrielyan's remarks came shortly after the conclusion of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing on Thursday. The four-day session reviewed and adopted a resolution focused on further comprehensively deepening reforms to advance China's ongoing modernization drive.
In an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Yerevan, capital of Armenia, Gabrielyan highlighted China's achievements and contribution to the world in economic development and poverty alleviation.
"Since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy in 1979, China's economy has achieved rapid growth, and more and more people have been alleviated from poverty. China is the world's second largest economy. If calculated by purchasing power parity (PPP), China has become the world's largest economy. China's achievements since reform and opening up are enormous," said Gabrielyan.
"In my opinion, China is now trying to make its opening-up policy more orderly, standardized and controllable. China is now the world's second largest economy. Many developing countries are catching up with China in terms of technology and market. China's manufacturing industry is huge and its products are all over the world. Therefore, we can say China's significance to the global economy is not overrated," said Gabrielyan.
Former Deputy PM of Armenia speaks highly of China's role in global economy
Former Deputy PM of Armenia speaks highly of China's role in global economy
China launched an airfoil design system and database on Wednesday to provide key technical support for independent innovation in the aviation sector.
The airfoil database was built by the National Key Laboratory of Aircraft Configuration Design in northwest China’s Xi’an City, which was jointly run by the Northwestern Polytechnical University and the First Aircraft Institute of Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
The database integrates a customized airfoil profile system designed for eight types of advanced aircraft, creating China's first such database for industrial applications.
"The research and development team, consisting of members of three generations, has devoted over 30 years of efforts to build up the theoretical foundation of airfoil design and combine it with model development, thus creating a comprehensive airfoil system in China from scratch. Now China has developed over 1,000 airfoils with complete independent intellectual property rights. The release of China's airfoil system marks a breakthrough in its independent development of basic research and design development in this field, which has great historical significance," said Tang Changhong, director of the National Key Laboratory of Aircraft Configuration Design, during the launch event.
As airfoil design is the foundation of aircraft design and development, experts said that the establishment of the airfoil database provides technical support for China's general aviation and drone sectors, which will play an important supporting role in the development of the aerospace industry in China.
"The release of this set of system and database can greatly reduce the work in the early stage of the design department, thus speeding up the development process. In the future, people can look for the suitable [ airfoil design] in our system according to their performance requirements. If they have more specific requirement, they can use this system as a basis, and our supporting design software can quickly make customized airfoil to meet their requirements," said Gao Zhenghong, a professor from the School of Aeronautics of Northwestern Polytechnical University.
China launches airfoil database to support innovation in aviation technology
