First Domestically-Made Aircraft Carrier Launched
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China has launched its second aircraft carrier – and the first one built entirely on its own. Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, attended the launch ceremony.
The 50,000-ton carrier, festooned in red flags and ribbons and with a bottle of champagne smashed over its bow, slid from a dry dock into the water at a shipyard ceremony in the northeastern port city of Dalian on April 26.