Boeing has bought aircraft materials worth 500 million US dollars so far in China and plans to expand this purchase volume to 1.3 billion US dollars by 2010, the company's senior official announced recently.

Alan Mulally, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, considered the growth an outcome of the win-win cooperation between China and Boeing.

According to Mulally, China would participate in the manufacturing of Boeing 7E7s, a fresh new commercial jetliner being promoted by the company.

He expressed the hope that China would further step up cooperation with Boeing and buy the new type of mid-sized 7E7 before the summer of 2008 to better serve the transport for Beijing's Olympic Games.