China is expected to realize its "large aircraft" dream by the year 2015, a senior aviation official said Friday in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.

"Large aircraft" refer to large transportation planes with a carrying capacity exceeding 100 tons, trunk liners with more than 150 seats and other derivative special-purpose planes, Liu said.

Liu Daxiang, who is a senior official with the state-owned China Aviation Industry Corporation I and also a deputy to China's parliament or the National People's Congress (NPC), said he was happy to learn that the development of large aircraft is listed as one of the country's 16 major development plans in the 11th Five-Year Program for the 2006-2010 period.

"If things are going smoothly, large transport planes for military and civil purposes are expected to fly into the sky in 10 years," Liu said.

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