The Diplomat:
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) commissioned a Type 056/056A Jiangdao-class corvette into service this month. The new Jiangdao-class corvette, christened Wuhai, was officially inducted into service during a commissioning ceremony held at a naval port in the city of Dalian in China’s Liaoning province on January 16, according to China Military Online.
“Rear Admiral Lv Baoqiang, political commissar of a naval base under the PLA Northern Theater Command, conferred the ensigns of the PLA and the PLA Navy and the naming certificate on the corvette Wuhai at the ceremony,” the report notes. “A grand flag-raising ceremony was later held on the corvette.”
The PLAN last commissioned two Type 056/056A Jiangdao-class corvettes into service in November 2017, although there were plans to induct at least four more vessels of the class in December and January.
