Quote from Richard Fisher's 2002 article titled "China's PLA enlists capitalist competition":
"One of CAC's upstart competitors is the five-year-old Beijing SuperWing Technology Research Institute Co., which came to the airshow to market its CY-1 multi-role fighter. Like the J-10, the CY-1 is a canard-delta multi-role fighter with F-16-like performance. But it uses a novel aerodynamic "side stake" to allow the plane to achieve stable flight without using expensive computer-driven, fly-by-wire systems needed by the J-10. When you dig a bit, however, you find out that Beijing SuperWing only sells concepts; it does not actually make airplanes. But they do need investors, and with the right capital are confident of generating a prototype in five years.
Not too far away, one potential partner to produce the CY-1, the Guizhou Corporation, scoffed at the concept fighter, skeptical that it could forgo fly-by-wire systems. They too were pushing a new product, their FTC-2000 trainer, which could also easily be modified into a fighter-bomber to compete with the J-10 and the CY-1.
Neverthless, Beijing SuperWing professed optimism about the CY-1, claiming that the "customer," an airshow euphemism for the PLA, was "very enthusiastic" about its idea. And why not? By simply empowering the company, the PLA potentially gets an inexpensive fighter with reasonable performance without spending their own money -- and in a fraction of J-10's glacial development period. And even if the company fails, the PLA gains, as Beijing SuperWing's managers and engineers will have learned valuable lessons to apply to future projects."
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To best of my knowledge, Beijing Superwing only had designs and couple demo models. The "prototype" aircraft shown in the photos may be a radio-controlled model and not an actual manned aircraft.
