Over the past year, disparate elements of the Chinese Navy’s carrier development program have continued to progress and come together.

The Fujian, China's Type 003 carrier that follows the Type 001 Liaoning and Type 002 Shandong, returned to Jiangnan pier near Shanghai on Dec. 3, 2024, after it left on Nov. 18. This is its fifth ...

The newly developed Type 003 carrier has been under construction at the Jiangnan Shipyard northeast of Shanghai since 2018. Satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC on May 31 suggest work on the ...

Summary and Key Points: China's Type 003 Fujian, the People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN) most advanced aircraft carrier, successfully completed its third and longest sea trial, returning to ...

The carrier, a still unnamed naval vessel known simply as the Type 003, could launch in three to six months, three Center for Strategic and International Studies experts have concluded given the ...

China has launched its third aircraft carrier and the first to feature a ... The Fujian, which was previously known as the Type 003, has a flight deck that measures about 316 meters long and ...

The third carrier, a still unnamed ship known as Type 003, is expected to "significantly upgrade China's naval capabilities," CSIS senior fellows Matthew Funaiole and James Bermudez Jr.