[thoughtstheseus]

Yes. Airplanes are complex, high value products with military applications. The skill set to successfully develop and field a fleet of planes is an obvious upskilling of labor which will bleed over to other fields. China cares about economic development so they will build planes over and over again until they master it. Aviation firms are one of the few industries which closely protected their trade secrets making knowledge transfers tough.

[justinclift]

Wonder if there would be transfer to/from their space industry as well?

I'd kind of expect there would be.