Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Bradley Perrett (Zhuhai, China), Douglas Barrie (Zhuhai, China)
China aims to challenge the global aerospace industry with a range of increasingly focused civil and military aircraft and system builders, following a sweeping restructuring of its aeronautics sector. Specialized Chinese aircraft businesses that are emerging from the restructuring are the competitors that U.S., European, Russian and Japanese companies will struggle against and cooperate with over the coming decades.
BEIJING – Sweeping reforms of the Chinese aerospace sector will present the global industry with a team of focused competitors with specialties ranging from engines to fighters to aircraft equipment.
Sweeping reforms of the Chinese aerospace sector will present the global industry with a team of focused competitors with specialties ranging from airliners to engines to fighters. The country has cast aside the ambiguous structure under which Avic 1 and Avic 2 each loosely managed a range of plants that did not often cooperate closely with each other. Instead, the Avics have been merged into a single company called Avic and, most importantly, factories and research institutes have been bundled into subsidiaries with much narrowly focused businesses.
