China's newest aircraft carrier Fujian commissioned into service

Honouring the province of the same name, Fujian is the PLAN’s third aircraft carrier after Liaoning and Shandong.

However, unlike the two earlier ships, Fujian was designed and built locally, whereas Liaoning is the ex-Soviet Navy carrier Varyag while Shandong, despite having been built in China, had adopted a design based on that of the Russian Navy’s flagship Admiral Kuznetsov.