BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus said on Wednesday it had opened a second assembly line in China, increasing manufacturing capacity for its best-selling A320neo family of single-aisle jets.

The European planemaker’s 10th final assembly line globally, located in the port city of Tianjin near Beijing, is set to be fully operational in early 2026.

Its inauguration comes just over a week after Airbus opened a second final assembly line in Mobile, Alabama.

Ahead of the Tianjin opening, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury met with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement.

During the meeting, Wang stressed that rising economic fragmentation and unilateral, protectionist moves were unsettling global trade and adding instability and uncertainty, the ministry said

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