China took an important step towards projecting its growing military power further beyond its shores when its first domestically built aircraft carrier entered service on Tuesday.
The vessel was handed over to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) at a ceremony attended by Chinese president Xi Jinping at the naval base in Sanya on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.
The new ship joins the Liaoning, the country’s first aircraft carrier which was refurbished from a rusty hull bought from Ukraine in 1998 and commissioned seven years ago.
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