Rolls-Royce wins $1.8bn Air China order

Rolls-Royce will provide Trent XWB engines to ten Airbus A350 XWB planes and Trent 700 engines to ten Airbus A330 aircraft, the company said in a statement.

Earlier in November, Rolls-Royce won a $1.2 billion order from China Eastern Airlines, with the deal coinciding with a trip to Beijing by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is looking to double Britain's trade with China by 2015.

Britain's biggest retailer Tesco said on Monday it planned to quadruple revenue from China over the next five years.

Rolls-Royce is already well-established in China, where it has a 56 percent share of the market for large civil aero-engines.

It is also a partner of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham.

Rolls-Royce has had more than $4.5 billion worth of orders for Trent 700 engines since the start of July.

Rolls-Royce has been hit by safety concerns over a different engine type, the Trent 900, after a one of the engines partly disintegrated mid-flight, forcing a fully laden Qantas plane to make an emergency landing in Singapore on November 4.