Thing about China is they watch and learn? Strange how China will use Bombardier to teach them selfs how to build sub components and learn the aerospace business from this Canadian icon. The problem is they never buy any of Bombardier's new planes. The Chinese are mearly cheap labour. Trying to cut their teeth by using Bombardier to developed their own technology.
All the while the Commercial Aircraft Corp.of China is developing their own Aerospace business and products such as the C929. It's supposed to carry up to several hundred people.Although it's competitor would be the A330 or the Boeing 767. It could be modified to compete with the stretch version of the C-Series.
Their stratgic partner is Russia, oddly enough the same partner the Bomber where trying to set up dual assembly lines to build the sucesful Dash-8 / 400 series. The thing is once the compitition have your product and know how. why do they need you....L.O.L.