India, Oct. 26 -- Airbus Chairman Rene Obermann has lauded India's engineering prowess, quality and entrepreneurial ambition, and described India as a strategic, long-term partner for Airbus and a vital support in the firm's global supply chain.

Obermann said he is "very bullish on India" while speaking at the Berlin Global Dialogue, reported Business Today.

"I'm very bullish on India. I think the ambition which I sensed - I'll tell you - the ambition on the entrepreneurial level was beyond what I heard everywhere in the world before," Obermann said. "They're coming from a position where there's a lot to catch up still if you think about GDP per capita, etc., but everyone I spoke to had massive ambition and excellent education and super...