H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)
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What engine does AECC Chengdu make/develop?
CJ-1000 for C919 airliner. It is in the same class as WS-20 and could power H-X bomber as well.
“西飞采购管理部党委” and “成发装试分党委” are the key words that refute your speculation.
by78
General
Alleged by whom? Is there some context I'm missing here?
Judging by the article alone, it has nothing to do with H-XX or any specific project at all. The article talks about a conference being held to better integrate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into the Xi'an Aircraft Company (XAC). Basically lots of political jargons about building and strengthening CCP's infrastructure at XAC, using party members as the core, and so on and on to better take on challenges.
CJ-1000 or WS-20 are all high bypass turbo fan engines of very big diameter, they will never be put in a bomber, they are too big. Any other engine sharing the same core with smaller fan can not be regarded as the same engine, neither will it be necessarily assigned to AECC Chengdu. This breaks the connection of this report with H-XX.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
In a documentary commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the PLA founding, the subtitle says the new type long range strategic bomber H-20's R & D has made significant progress.
antiterror13
Brigadier
hopefully the new bomber could fly on the 70th anniversary of PRC 
That's a rather vague statement. Settling down on one design configuration could be significant progress. Finishing preliminary design could be significant progress. Finishing detailed engineering blueprints could be as well. As could be manufacture of a prototype. Or even solving some issues that may have risen during ground testing/inspection of a prototype. The last one would suggest imminent first flight. The first one is likely non-applicable as we've had other indications that design configuration has been chosen years ago already.
B-2, after its redesign, had a configuration freeze in summer of 1983. Then it passed the critical design review for structure in late 1985 and CD reviews of other subsystems throughout 1986. Then it took another 3 years to actually build, troubleshoot and make flight-worthy the prototype. In summer of 1989 it finally flew.
So... we're probably not more than 5 years away from first flight of H-20. But could be, in theory, less than a year away from it.
B-2, after its redesign, had a configuration freeze in summer of 1983. Then it passed the critical design review for structure in late 1985 and CD reviews of other subsystems throughout 1986. Then it took another 3 years to actually build, troubleshoot and make flight-worthy the prototype. In summer of 1989 it finally flew.
So... we're probably not more than 5 years away from first flight of H-20. But could be, in theory, less than a year away from it.
The statement is obviously rather vague and can be interpreted very broadly and thus only a very wide range of first flight date could be speculated based on the statement, just like what you did above.
But we also have other information and one can Condicombine them to arrive at a slightly better prediction. A few other more or less significant "leaks" in recent years:
- General Ma Xiaotian, Air Force Commander, disclosed that China's long-range bomber is under development, in an official event (Air Force Day) in 2016.
- Earlier this year, XAC revealed in one of its major promotional video what looked like a fly-wing type of aircraft in silhouette at the end of the show as "Next Step."
- This leak from the current CCTV documentary announcing "major progress" in H-20 development, also the first time the name "H-20" is disclosed more or less officially.
Based on the above information and reasoning, I would say the first H-20 flight is likely to be one to three years away.