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Fans dressed as the characters from "Star Wars" react during Star Wars Day in Taipei, Taiwan. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

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China's homegrown large passenger plane C919 takes off on its maiden flight in Shanghai, east China, May 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)

SHANGHAI, May 5 (Xinhua) -- China sent its homegrown large passenger plane C919 into sky on Friday, becoming one of the world's top makers of jumbo aircraft.

The flight makes China the fourth jumbo jet producer after the

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. It also marks a milestone for the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC), the Shanghai-based manufacturer of C919.

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Staff workers check a C919, China's first domestically-built large passenger jet, at a hangar of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) in Shanghai, east China, May 4, 2017. The maiden flight of the C919 is scheduled for May 5. The flight will depart from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. "If weather conditions are not suitable, the maiden flight will be rescheduled," COMAC said. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)

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Police officers and firefighters head for Beidahe forest farm in the Greater Hinggan Mountain region, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 4, 2017. Nearly 5,000 firefighters are battling a fire in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which broke out at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

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Police officers and firefighters work at Beidahe forest farm in the Greater Hinggan Mountain region, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 4, 2017.

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People react during the maiden flight of China's home-grown C919 passenger at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. REUTERS/Aly Song

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China's home-grown C919 passenger jet lands during its first flight at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. China Daily/via REUTERS

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Members of staff wave as they step out of China's home-grown C919 passenger jet after following its maiden flight at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. REUTERS/Aly Song

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Children participate in an egg decoration activity marking "lixia", the beginning of summer in Chinese lunar calendar, in Xianghe, north China's Hebei Province, May 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Xiaoguo)

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Citizens participate in a folk custom activity marking "lixia", the beginning of summer in Chinese lunar calendar, in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, May 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Zhong)

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Handicraftsmen make straw sandals during a folk custom activity marking "lixia", the beginning of summer in Chinese lunar calendar, in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, May 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Zhong)

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Firefighters gather to withdraw from the site of an extinguished forest fire in Bilahe Beidahe Forest in the Greater Hinggan Mountains, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 5, 2017. A forest fire was extinguished Friday after burning for three days in the region. More than 9,400 firefighters, police and civilians battled the fire that broke out here on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

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Vehicles carrying firefighters are seen on site of an extinguished forest fire in Bilahe Beidahe Forest in the Greater Hinggan Mountains, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 5, 2017. A forest fire was extinguished Friday after burning for three days in the region. More than 9,400 firefighters, police and civilians battled the fire that broke out here on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

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A worker works on an assembly line of a liquor company in Fenyang of north China's Shanxi Province, May 5, 2017. The company introduced new technologies to the traditional liquor industry in making one of the widely known Chinese liquor "Fenjiu". (Xinhua/Cao Yang)

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Workers work on an assembly line of a liquor company in Fenyang of north China's Shanxi Province, May 5, 2017.

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Shopping assistant Liu Jingyi helps choose clothes for a customer in Jinan City, the capital of East China’s Shandong Province. The 27 year old says she charges 300 yuan ($43) an hour and her customers are mainly female white collar workers or men searching for clothes to wear for a job interview or on a date. (Photo/VCG)

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Photos taken on May 4, 2017 shows a maglev train in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. China's first middle-to-low speed magnetically levitated (maglev) rail line in Changsha has safely operated for one year. The maglev shuttles between Changsha's south railway station and the airport, with one stop in between. (Xinhua/Long Hongtao)

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Children make architecture models during a science literacy contest in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 6, 2017. Some 1,000 children took part in 49 events during the two-day contest that kicked off on Saturday. (Xinhua/Li Hanchi)

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Children control a stone thrower model during a science literacy contest in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 6, 2017.

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A girl operates a drone during a science literacy contest in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 6, 2017.

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Children play in a fountain at Beiyang Square in Tianjin University, in Tianjin, north China, May 6, 2017. (Xinhua/Wang Xiaoming)

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