The Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines, one of the three major State-owned Chinese airlines, will become the first to take delivery of the homemade single-aisle passenger jet C919, domestic plane-maker Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) revealed last Tuesday.我国飞机制造商中国商飞公司上周二透露，三大国有航空公司之一、总部位于上海的东方航空公司将成为国产单通道客机C919的首个交付用户。If everything goes right, the first test flight of the 168-seat C919 is expected to be conducted by the end of the year, and conservatively speaking, it could be in early 2017, COMAC said.商飞公司称，如果一切顺利，168座的C919客机将在今年年底进行首次试飞，保守一点的话也会在明年年初完成首次试飞。

Within one year of the test flight, COMAC and China Eastern will start discussions on the purchase of five C919 aircraft.在C919客机试飞后的1年内，中国商飞公司和东方航空将开始进行5架客机的交易谈判。So far, COMAC has received over 570 orders of C919 from 23 customers.目前，商飞公司已收到来自23家客户、逾570架C919的订单。Besides China Eastern, the planemaker also won commitments from a slew of leasing companies, including 36 from Citic Financial Leasing and 20 from SPDB Financial Leasing.除了东方航空公司之外，该飞机制造商也获得了一系列的租赁公司的承诺，其中包括与中信金融租赁有限公司签署36架飞机的协议、与浦发银行金融租赁签署20架飞机的协议。Apart from the C919, COMAC is also pushing sales of its Advanced Regional Jet ARJ21.除了C919客机，中国商飞公司也在推动ARJ21新支线飞机的销售。Longhao Air signed a commitment to purchase an unspecified number of the smaller 90-seat jets, COMAC said in one statement.中国商飞公司在一份声明中表示，龙浩航空集团签署了一项购买数目不详、有90个座位的小型飞机的协议。