{"id":121410,"date":"2025-09-14T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/new-aircraft-carrier-sails-into-s-china-sea-for-tests-china-daily\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:07:27","slug":"new-aircraft-carrier-sails-into-s-china-sea-for-tests-china-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/new-aircraft-carrier-sails-into-s-china-sea-for-tests-china-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"New aircraft carrier sails into S. China Sea for tests \u2013 China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNS\u00a0Fujian<\/em>, China\u2019s third aircraft carrier, has sailed into the South China Sea for tests and training operations, a military spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Senior Captain Leng Guowei, spokesperson for the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy, said in a brief statement that the\u00a0Fujian<\/em>\u00a0recently passed through the Taiwan Strait to its designated mission area in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

He said that the cross-region operation is a regular arrangement in the carrier\u2019s construction project and is not aimed at any specific target. Leng did not elaborate on the schedule for the vessel.<\/p>\n

It is the first time for the\u00a0Fujian<\/em>\u00a0to operate in the South China Sea and marks the longest voyage the carrier has made so far.<\/p>\n

Wu Peixin, a defense industry observer, said this is the\u00a0Fujian\u2019<\/em>s ninth sea trial and it is likely to check the carrier\u2019s performance in long-distance deployment and examine joint operation capability between the platform and its escort vessels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that the Navy is sending the\u00a0Fujian<\/em>\u00a0to waters far from its shipyard indicates that all of the installation and fine-tuning work on the ship has been finished, and also tells us that the carrier must have performed well in its previous sea trials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Wu said he believes that carrier-borne fighter jets will be used during the latest trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Navy has published footage of its personnel conducting electromagnetic catapult launch tests on board the\u00a0Fujian<\/em>, which were successful. It has also declassified its new carrier-borne stealth jet. All of this means that the planes designated for the new carrier are about to be deployed on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Fujian<\/em>, one of China\u2019s most important pieces of military hardware, was officially unveiled in June 2022 in Shanghai when it was towed out of China State Shipbuilding Corp\u2019s Jiangnan Shipyard.<\/p>\n

Since then, the vessel has undergone several sea trials and is nearly ready to be commissioned.<\/p>\n

It is the first Chinese carrier equipped with an electromagnetic catapult, the most critical component on a supercarrier as it is responsible for launching fighter jets.<\/p>\n

At a parade last week in Beijing, the Navy unveiled almost all of the combat aircraft to be deployed on the new carrier, including the J-35 stealth fighter, the KJ-600 early-warning and control plane, and the J-15DT electronic warfare jet. The move indicated that all of the aviation elements for the\u00a0Fujian<\/em>\u00a0have been readied.<\/p>\n

The Navy currently operates two aircraft carriers \u2014 CNS\u00a0Liaoning<\/em>\u00a0and CNS\u00a0Shandong<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Both have a standard displacement of around 50,000 metric tons, conventional propulsion systems, and use a ski jump method for launching fixed-wing aircraft. The\u00a0Liaoning<\/em>\u00a0underwent 10 sea trials before going into service, and the\u00a0Shandong<\/em>\u00a0conducted nine before it was commissioned.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNS\u00a0Fujian, China\u2019s third aircraft carrier, has sailed into the South China Sea for tests and training operations, a military spokesperson said on Friday. Senior Captain Leng Guowei, spokesperson for the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy, said in a brief statement that the\u00a0Fujian\u00a0recently passed through the Taiwan Strait to its designated mission area in the South China […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}