Aviation Industry Corporation of China

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China, known as AVIC, is a Chinese state-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Beijing and overseen by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. It took its present form in 2008, when the two companies left by the 1999 split of the earlier China Aviation Industry Corporation, AVIC I and AVIC II, were merged back into one group of more than a hundred subsidiaries. Its units build fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, helicopters, trainers and unmanned aircraft, and they include Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, which makes the J-10 and J-20, alongside the Shenyang, Xi'an and Harbin aircraft companies. It bought the American engine maker Continental Motors in 2010 and the aircraft maker Cirrus in 2011. In this atlas it is the parent of the Chinese aircraft makers grouped under it.