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After two decades of double-digit increases in military spending, the Chinese Navy plans to develop a naval fleet that can operate in deep waters and the open ocean ( blue - water ) to sustain growth and economic interests in the disputed region of South and East China Sea.
China's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning - Soviet -era vessel purchased from Ukraine in 1998 and again repaired at the shipyard of China - has long been a symbol of the increase in Chinese naval capabilities.
Successfully operate the ship weighs 60,000 tons, it is the first step that is believed to be a number of media and military experts for the placement of a homemade aircraft carrier in 2020.
In a statement posted on Chinese news websites, Wang Min, the Communist Party boss in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the location of the parent vessel -based, the second aircraft carrier is being built in the port city of Dalian.
The construction will take about six years, and in the future China will have a fleet of at least four aircraft carriers . This problem is said to legislators Wang Liaoning province, Saturday, January 18, 2014.
Several reports of the carrier is removed from the Internet, and a link to the news was also not working.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, citing anonymous military sources said, the report might have been removed, either because the government wanted a low profile about it, or because Wang is considered not to have the authority to make an announcement like that.
China 's Defense Ministry has not responded to requests for comment on this story.
Liaoning successful in 100 tests, including the combat system, during exercise in the South China Sea, a disputed area of the country with its neighbors.
Exercise off the coast of Hainan Island is marked not only the first time China has sent an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea, but the first time to maneuver with U.S. warships that accompany aircraft carriers stationed there.
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