Since the 21st century, the development of the PLA Navy's warships has taken short quick steps, employing gradual innovation and developing smaller groups of transitional types in a short period of time.
2018-05-02 08:49China's Liaoning aircraft carrier formation Thursday returned to a military port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, after more than 10 days of live-fire exercises.
2018-04-27 09:48A Chinese naval fleet consisting of guided-missile destroyer Changsha and guided-missile frigate Liuzhou set sail for Indonesia from a military port in Sanya on Apr. 25 to participate in the Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo 2018.
2018-04-26 21:54A Chinese naval flotilla headed by the aircraft carrier Liaoning conducted Sunday confrontation drills in a water of the East China Sea with shore-based warplanes and submarines of the PLA Navy.
2018-04-24 17:44The Chinese aircraft carrier formation, featuring the carrier Liaoning, has undertaken live combat drills in the East China Sea.
2018-04-24 08:48A Chinese navy flotilla including aircraft carrier Liaoning has conducted a series of exercises in the South China Sea since the navy review last Thursday.
2018-04-17 22:49The international community should realize that a rising China with a strong navy will be better able to safeguard its own national security and regional peace.
2018-04-16 14:50Demonstrating national maritime strength is one of the connotations of a maritime parade. The changes of the main battleships in the past five maritime parades intuitively demonstrate the leap-forward development of the Chinese PLA Navy.
2018-04-13 17:43China has mastered AIP technology, which allows its non-nuclear submarines to reach the advanced level of similar systems in other parts of the world.
2018-04-13 16:56The Chinese Navy began a three-day series of exercises in the South China Sea on Wednesday, the Maritime Safety Administration said.
2018-04-12 11:23China's first home-grown aircraft carrier has been reportedly preparing for its maiden sea voyage in the northeastern Bohai Sea later in April, with experts noting that the vessel may serve the Chinese Navy in the second half of 2018.
2018-04-11 20:48Hainan's maritime safety administration has demarcated an area in the South China Sea which will be closed to all civilian and fishing vessels from Wednesday to Friday.
2018-04-11 16:14China's second aircraft carrier or the country's first domestically built carrier, known as the Type 001A, might undergo its first sea trials on April 23, China's Navy Day, media reported.
2018-04-10 16:51Another fleet of the Chinese PLA ships out on Thursday to continue its escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia.
2018-04-08 09:11The 29th fleet from Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has left east China's port city Zhoushan for the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somali to escort civilian ships.
2018-04-05 15:09The Chinese Navy is testing new drones capable of synchronized operations with military aircraft. The drones – or unmanned aerial vehicles – are tailor-made to ascend and land vertically on destroyers and even aircraft carriers.
2018-04-04 23:00China will conduct drills in the South China Sea from Thursday to April 11, an opportunity that might be taken to improve aircraft carrier Liaoning's combat capability.
2018-04-04 08:46China's first domestically built carrier, known as the Type 001A, is undergoing preparations for its first sea trial, while discussions about its name show that Chinese people hold high expectations of the carrier's ability to resolve the Taiwan question.
2018-03-28 08:42About ten thousand Chinese Marines maneuvered more than 2,000 kilometers and arrived in northern Yunnan and Shandong provinces respectively in mid-March, 2018.
2018-03-26 16:43The People's Liberation Army Navy will carry out combat exercises in the South China Sea in the coming days, the Navy said on Friday.
2018-03-25 00:18The PLA Navy will conduct combat drills in the waters of the South China Sea recently, according to the Staff Department of the PLA Navy.
2018-03-23 16:09A military expert said on Mar. 21 that it is not the first time the Liaoning aircraft carrier has conducted cross-sea training and the latest sailing is also a routine one.
2018-03-23 09:46China should send more militia missions to safeguard territorial sovereignty and the marine rights and interests in the South China Sea, a national legislator said.
2018-03-20 08:29The 27th Chinese naval escort taskforce has returned to China after completing merchant ships escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia and a port visits to three north African nations.
2018-03-20 01:03The largest ever trans-regional training of the PLA Navy Marine Corps combined diverse modes of transport including air, water, railway and motor, the report said.
2018-03-16 08:25The comprehensive supply ship Taihu (Hull 889) attached to the 28th Chinese naval escort taskforce successfully escorted the merchant ship "Jinda" to the designated sea area on March 6, local time.
2018-03-08 15:52A far-sea training taskforce of the PLA Navy's South China Sea Fleet returned to a military port in Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province, after a 25-day voyage on Sunday morning.
2018-02-26 17:36The 27th Chinese naval escort taskforce consisting of the guided-missile destroyer Haikou, the guided-missile frigate Yueyang and the comprehensive supply ship Qinghaihu arrived at the Port of Cape Town, South Africa, on Feb. 19, for a 2-day technical stop.
2018-02-24 18:18New pilots assigned to a naval aviation brigade under the PLA Eastern Theater Command conducted their first solo flights in the first half of February.
2018-02-22 17:23China's Lunar New Year celebration is in full swing, and a new Hong Kong blockbuster film is hitting theaters just in time for the height of movie season: Operation Red Sea, described by the state-run Global Times as "a patriotic movie about Chinese marines carrying out a daring rescue mission"
2018-02-17 22:57Operation Red Sea, a patriotic movie about Chinese marines carrying out a daring rescue overseas has hit the screens in China during the country's busiest movie-going season -- Spring Festival.
2018-02-16 22:56A medical expert team sent by the PLA Naval Medical University set out to Cambodia on February 5, 2018.
2018-02-09 18:03In the sci-fi box office smash "Transformers", the human race defeats the Decepticons in an epic battle by using high-tech electromagnetic weapons – a scenario which is likely to be realized by Chinese military forces, experts noted.
2018-02-05 18:18The guided-missile frigate Yancheng (Hull 546) of the 28th Chinese naval escort taskforce set out in west waters off the Gulf of Aden on a mission to escort UNWFP merchant ship SELIN-M at 9 am on Feb. 2, local time.
2018-02-05 16:14The Chinese navy and telecommunication corporations are cooperating to upgrade communications on some South China Sea islands and reefs, the official People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily reported Friday.
2018-02-03 18:09China's carrier aviation programs continue apace with the focus starting to shift toward the development and introduction of training and specialized aircraft as China's first domestically built carrier approaches the start of sea trials.
2018-02-02 16:39The 27th Chinese naval escort taskforce left Sunday afternoon Casablanca after a 5-day friendly visit to Morocco, embarking on its voyage home.
2018-01-30 15:59The 27th Chinese naval escort taskforce arrived at Casablanca, a port city and also the largest city in Morocco, for a 5-day friendly visit on Wednesday morning.
2018-01-26 23:33The PLA Navy is strengthening its combat capability by conducting drills in the South China Sea in an effort to deal with potential disputes and national reunification in the future, a military expert said.
2018-01-25 08:25The guided-missile frigate Weifang of the 28th Chinese naval escort taskforce expelled one suspected pirate boat at the west waters of the Gulf of Aden on Jan 20, local time.
2018-01-23 22:25