The XXJ has been tested in the wind tunnel for quite some time. The project is actually much further along than what Kanwa is reporting on.

Kanwa is actually reporting on pretty old news. Kanwa has far more access to Russian sources than Chinese.

In fact, the following picture is a screen capture from a 2002 Zhuhai air show promo video.

The XXJ is China’s 4th generation. The J-10 is Chinese third (if China is ever goes official with it). J-8 belong’s to the second Chinese generation.

I’ve never seen any official attempts to correlate those generation descriptions with the western ones.

So I’ll leave it at the official Chinese generation description. Kanwa saying it is “5th generation” whatever that means is up to his interpretation.