December 31, 2015

"On the last day of 2015, China's Ministry of Defense confirmed the country has started building a second aircraft carrier. The new one, domestically designed, has a displacement of 50,000 tons. It will be conventionally-powered and features J-15 fighters using the ski-jump takeoff method. From these features, it's clear that the country's second aircraft carrier shares some similarities with the first one, Liaoning.

Many netizens cheered the news as the country's new year's gift to its people.

Beijing has kept a low profile about the new carrier. The information available on media were either collected by Chinese military afficionados or speculated by Western intelligence agencies, sometimes leaked by Chinese authorities. US media have claimed that China's new carrier will be ready next year at the earliest. US intelligence also predicted China will build several more aircraft carriers in the next 15 years."

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