Aircraft of the Bayi Aerobatic Team of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force conduct a validation flight during the media preview for the upcoming 10th Singapore Airshow in Singapore on Sunday.
The airshow will be held from Feb. 3 to 8 in Singapore. The appearance marks the team's return to the event since the seventh edition in February 2020.
On Sunday morning, six J-10C fighter jets of the Bayi Aerobatic Team took off in two groups sequentially. After assembling and forming up in the air, they flew to the designated area over the sea to perform a series of aerobatic maneuvers.
The aircraft then executed an ultra-tight formation pass at low altitude, trailing red, yellow, and white smoke as they roared low across the sea surface.
"This will be our debut in Singapore after we've upgraded to J-10C fighters. It's been six years since our last visit to Singapore. We have undergone significant changes in personnel, equipment, and operational procedures. This time it is an entirely new lineup," said Luo Jie, a team member from the Bayi Aerobatic Team.
"Overall, everybody has done a very good job and working very hard to make the show success. Especially for Bayi [Aerobatic Team], they are the most colorful, with the longest smoke sequences in the show. So, I'm looking forward to seeing everybody putting their utmost effort into the show, and I'm looking forward to seeing them displayed in Singapore Air Show 2026," said a staff member from the airshow organizer.
Aerobatic teams from Singapore, Australia, and Indonesia have also conducted similar validation flights.
Chinese PLA aerobatic team conducts validation flight ahead of Singapore Airshow
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
