{"id":17070,"date":"2012-09-25T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2012-09-25T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:15:21","slug":"chinese-navy-commissions-first-aircraft-carrier-the-liaoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/chinese-navy-commissions-first-aircraft-carrier-the-liaoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Navy commissions first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s first aircraft carrier has been commissioned under the name Liaoning<\/em> (not Shi Lang<\/em> as most earlier reports had stated). Chinese news agency Xinhua<\/a> posted this report earlier today:<\/p>\n

China’s first aircraft carrier was delivered and commissioned to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Tuesday after years of refitting and sea trials.<\/p>\n

Overseen by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, the carrier was officially handed over by the navy’s main contractor, the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, at a ceremony held at a naval base in northeast China’s port city of Dalian.<\/p>\n

President Hu, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), endorsed a PLA flag and naming certificate to Senior Captain Zhang Zheng, commanding officer of China’s first carrier, the Liaoning<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Today will be forever remembered as China’s Navy has entered an era of aircraft carrier,” Zhang told Xinhua on the carrier’s flight deck.<\/p>\n

“When I received the PLA flag from the President, a strong sense of duty and commitment welled up in my heart,” said Zhang who has served as commanding officer on the Navy’s frigate and destroyer.<\/p>\n

The carrier, rebuilt from the Soviet ship Varyag<\/em>, was renamed “Liaoning<\/em>” and underwent years of refitting efforts to install engines, weapons, as well as a year-long sea trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC News has a series of photos of the Liaoning<\/em> from purchase to commissioning:<\/p>\n

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Click to see full-size images at the BBC website<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier reports on the progress of the carrier (under the name Shi Lang<\/em>) can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s first aircraft carrier has been commissioned under the name Liaoning (not Shi Lang as most earlier reports had stated). Chinese news agency Xinhua posted this report earlier today: China’s first aircraft carrier was delivered and commissioned to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Tuesday after years of refitting and sea trials. Overseen by President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[617,30,433],"class_list":["post-17070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","tag-carriers","tag-navy","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21529,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions\/21529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}