A leading city university is playing a key role in China’s aviation industry.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China yesterday signed a contract to jointly build up an integrated air-ground verification platform for civil airplane to test flights.

The university said the two institutions will cooperate in making technological breakthroughs in various fields. These include modeling of digital test flights, air-ground comparisons and monitoring of test flight data, intelligent risk controls in test flights, and to develop a digital risk control platform that can support test flights of large passenger aircraft.