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China’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, enters service

World’s largest conventionally powered warship makes China the second country to field a carrier with electromagnetic catapults after the US

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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the commissioning ceremony for the Fujian in Sanya, Hainan province, on Wednesday. Photo: CCTV

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Published: 1:02pm, 7 Nov 2025Updated: 6:41pm, 7 Nov 2025

China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, entered into service on Wednesday at a grand ceremony in Sanya, Hainan province, according to state media reports from Friday.

The Fujian is China’s most advanced warship and its first aircraft carrier to be equipped with electromagnetic catapults.

Its inauguration makes China only the second country, after the United States, to operate a carr