China's has made no secret of its plans to take on Boeing and Airbus in the market for large aircraft through a new government-backed aircraft maker. The Oriental Morning Post talks to some of the key players from the Chinese side about the challenges ahead.

China is the second largest automobile market in the world and now the world's third largest automobile producer, behind the US and Japan. Automakers produced 8.88 million motor vehicles last year, up 22.02% from a year earlier, including 6.38 million passenger vehicles and 2.5 million commercial vehicles.And more impressively, China has surpassed Japan ...