It was learned on December 25 that construction of Shenyang Aviation & Aerospace City—a highly anticipated core project for the aviation industry—is advancing at full speed. With the main structure of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC)’s new plant now completed, three supporting industrial parks are being developed in parallel, and the “four east–west, two north–south” road network as well as major trunk pipelines for “water, electricity, gas, and heating” have been completed. An aviation industry cluster is rapidly taking shape.
Shenyang Aviation & Aerospace City has a planned total area of 79.2 square kilometers. The SAC new plant zone is planned to include core facilities such as the final assembly building and a runway, fully covering needs for aviation product manufacturing and flight testing. By the end of June this year, the main structure of the new plant’s final assembly building was successfully completed and product assembly has officially begun, marking substantive progress in SAC’s key task of partial relocation.
Based on production-line commissioning progress and capacity ramp-up plans, the new plant is expected to enter mass production in 2026. Over the next three to five years, it will form a “smart manufacturing + full supply-chain support” production-base model, with total capacity expected to double. Meanwhile, as the core carrier for the new plant’s supporting flight-test runway, the runway structure and related test-flight facilities are under intensive construction. Once completed, they will mainly undertake key tasks such as aircraft flight testing and performance verification.
Alongside the SAC new plant build-out, Shenbei New District is simultaneously advancing key supporting industrial parks, focusing on three core sub-projects—SAC Composites, Titanium Alloy, and an Aviation Equipment Integrated Support Base—to build a coordinated “prime contractor + suppliers” development model.
According to officials, the SAC composites project has been completed and is expected to begin operations in mid-2026. After commissioning, the local supporting rate for the main aircraft plant’s composite parts is expected to rise from 50% to 80%. The project focuses on R&D and manufacturing of aerospace composite components, building specialized composite production lines. It will mainly supply items such as aircraft skins and panels and certain structural parts, significantly improving independent supply capability for aerospace composites. It also plans to extend upstream and midstream along the composites value chain, expanding into raw-material processing.
The titanium alloy project is focused on building titanium forming and additive manufacturing production lines. After commissioning, its products will cover key components including aircraft skins and panels, structural parts, titanium skins, welded panel assemblies, and functional system parts. The project is essentially completed, has already started manufacturing, and is providing key components to support SAC’s aircraft production.
The SAC aviation equipment integrated support base has topped out. Its steel-structure and frame factory buildings have all been completed. It is expected to be delivered and put into use in 2026. Positioned as a full-chain aviation support service platform, it includes an airborne delivery center, a headquarters innovation center, an inspection and testing center, and a living services center, further strengthening the aviation industry support system once completed.
Infrastructure supporting Shenyang Aviation & Aerospace City is also being rolled out comprehensively to ensure strong guarantees for subsequent regional development. Six new roads in the “four east–west, two north–south” network—totaling 8.95 km—have all been completed and opened to traffic, and eight major “water, electricity, gas, and heating” trunk pipelines are now in operation.
As the project progresses, Shenbei New District, the northern core of Shenyang’s “dual-core, one-base” aviation industry layout, has already gathered 139 aerospace enterprises and R&D/manufacturing units. Supporting projects in areas such as new materials, flight control, avionics, and airborne systems are moving in, forming the early shape of a fully connected upstream–downstream aviation industry chain. The ecosystem is expanding from parts manufacturing and machining toward higher value-added fields such as avionics systems, flight-control software, and aerospace materials.
