China's first completely home-built aircraft carrier sets out for sea trials

08:22, May 13, 2018

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  China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier sets out for sea trials

  China's first home-built aircraft carrier leaves Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province for sea trials on May 13, 2018. (Xinhua/Hu Kaibing)DALIAN, May 13 (Xinhua) -- China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier set out from a dock of Dalian Shipyard, northeast China's Liaoning Province, for sea trials Sunday morning.It is the country's second aircraft carrier.The sea trials will maily test the reliability

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  China's second aircraft carrier concludes first sea trials

  China's second aircraft carrier returns to dock at Dalian Shipyard in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 18, 2018, after its first sea trials. The aircraft carrier, the country's first domestically-built one, was launched in April last year and

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  Unlike the US throwing around its naval weight , development of aircraft carriers is unlikely to make China aggressive

  China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier. (Photo: VCG)China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier launched its sea trial on Sunday, but experts say this is just the beginning. China needs at least six such vessels to build two fleets to deploy in the West Pacific Ocean and Northern Indian Ocean. At least four of these carriers must be nuclear-powered.Chinese people took great pride