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The new mission of the PLA navy is to protect our national interests in coastal areas and the high seas, not to engage in an arms race.

In peacetime, Shichang is mainly used for the training of both PLA Navy and merchant ship crews.

After receiving outfitting at the Dalian Shipyard, the vessel joined service with the PLA Navy South Sea Fleet as a replenishment ship.

Admiral Wu Shengli, the PLA Navy's commander, has said the navy is modernising because of China's "expanded national interests" .

In the early 1990s, the PLA Navy began to build a dedicated training ship to replace Huayuankou.

The commission of the ship will improve the PLA Navy's capability to operate in deep oceans.

The proposed Gwadar port could meet some of the PLA Navy's needs but is less aggressive than a Chinese-owned base on foreign soil.

Fuqing class is the name given by NATO to the the PLA Navy's first replenishment oilers.

Only one hull has been built and the ship is currently in service with the PLA Navy North Sea Fleet.

A joint development team with engineers from the PLA Navy, a number of factories and research institutes was formed to solve these problems.

People gather and wait to watch the Chinese PLA navy fleet parade ceremony along the sea coast in Qingdao city, Shandong province, China.

South China Sea Fleet that established in 1949 is one of the PLA Navy three fleets.

The PLA Navy hopes to use this class to fulfil the gap in its combat capability caused by the delay in developing indigenous designs.

It is the only seagoing minesweeper operated by the PLA Navy.

A test base of the PLA Navy shoulders the task of testing and appraising underwater weapons.

Qiandaohu class is the most advanced multi-product fleet replenishment ship in service with the PLA Navy.

PLA Navy pilots have a long way to go before they are up to the challenge of landing on a carrier at sea.

PLA Navy sets up first "equipment technical support personnel station"

The PLA Navy guard the coastline of our motherland.

They even left places like headquarters of PLA navy and air forces unmarked!

'The PLA Navy are not only protecting Chinese ships, they also provide escort services to many foreign ships. '

To overcome this, the Chinese are building a Naval base at Gwadar housing a large task force of the PLA Navy to oversee the Persian Gulf.

Currently the PLA navy is developing a new-generation Type 094 (Jin class) as a successor to the Type 092.

As noted before, the PLA Navy surface fleet benefits from dense land-based fire support.

In 1979, the PLA Navy demanded a surveillance ship that can monitor foreign ships and collect electronic intelligence in offshore waters.

Based on a merchant tanker design, Qinghaihu is the largest vessel in service with the PLA Navy, with a full displacement of 37, 000 tonnes.

Both ships are expected to join the PLA Navy North Sea Fleet.

The ship has been in service with the PLA Navy's Dalian Ship College as a training ship since then.

PLA Navy to conduct live-ammunition drill in Yellow Sea.

By December 1957, a further three vessels were delivered to the PLA Navy.

The PLA Navy has shown it is serious by sending anti-piracy forces to the Gulf of Aden since late 2008.

Hangzhou (136) is the first of the two Project 956 Sovremenny class destroyers the PLA Navy ordered in 1997.

Nancang is the largest ship in the PLA Navy's inventory.

First, the PLA Navy does not have any carrier-capable aircraft.

PLA Navy's distance education platform "blue network project" starts operation

First batch of double-bachelor-degree pilots of PLA Navy complete transition training

Gamma Knife Treatment Research Center in PLA Navy General Hospital

New PLA Navy maritime replenishment equipment put to test in oceans

PLA Navy vessels support disaster-stricken areas in Fujian

PLA Navy launches all-out push for integrated ordnance support

PLA Navy sent out ships and aircraft to rescue trapped fishermen

The PLA Navy is also building a blue-water navy capability

PLA Navy task force arrives at Baltic Sea