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Are all these for their own use or any of these are for export?
Don't know what's on their mind but I can guess it's gonna give few sleepless night.
 
It’s useless that despite we have so many destroyer on build but the commissioning speed is like Indian Navy. What matter is the final commission into the fleet. PLAN need to buck up and commission at least 4 destroyers into service by this year.
 
Are all these for their own use or any of these are for export?
Don't know what's on their mind but I can guess it's gonna give few sleepless night.
They are all for PLA navy. There are also ACs, and numerous submarines under construction. This is just a tiny fraction of the capacity. If a war is imminent, we can easily roll out a warship every few days. And this is indeed good news for our allies, and bad news for our enemies..
 
Are all these for their own use or any of these are for export?
Don't know what's on their mind but I can guess it's gonna give few sleepless night.

These ships are for China's navy, not export.

While these ships are being built, there are ships that need to be retired and replaced.

Example, destroyer hull No. 109 is 36 years old, DDG 110 and DDG 134 are both 34 years old, they are still in service though in training roles. DDG 164 is 31 years old, DDG 165 is 29 years old and DDG 166 is 26 years old.

These 6 ships belonged to 051 class destroyers and are obsolete.

Besides replacing these old destroyers, China would need more major war ships for escort duties for the new aircraft carrier combat groups. And with increasing need to protect Chinese interests, especially in major shipping lanes.

And the last as other posters wrote, to prevent wars and conflict. When China did not had strong navy and airforce, these was what happened :-
From 1920s to 1949, US and British war ships sailed upto 1,800 KM inside China, on the Yangtze River. During Vietnam war, US jet fighters frequently flew over South China, US war ships and its ally intruding Chinese territorial water (eg. Aussie submarine spying in China water off Shanghai in 1960s). These were done with intention to escalate tensions and could had started war.
 
They are all for PLA navy. There are also ACs, and numerous submarines under construction. This is just a tiny fraction of the capacity. If a war is imminent, we can easily roll out a warship every few days. And this is indeed good news for our allies, and bad news for our enemies..



+(48-60) J20, 100+J10C,J16,J15,J11B,Y20 per year!
 
Two most recent satellite images (taken in Feb. 2018) show that China is now building 13 destroyers simultaneously:
- 7 destroyers in building at Jiangnan Shipyard (3* Type 055 + 4* Type 052D)
- 6 destroyers in building at Dalian Shipyard (3* Type 055 + 3* Type 052D)

Jiangnan Shipyard
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Dalian Shipyard
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According to the estimation of SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), China spends about 1.9% of its GDP on defense. The spending intensity is much lower than USA (3.3%), India (2.5%) and South Korea (2.7%).
China spends only 1.5% on defense. Muslim controlled Sweden is wrong
 
Are you sure many of those are newly built destroyers or simply existing destroyers that have returned for refits and upgrades?
 
Are you sure many of those are newly built destroyers or simply existing destroyers that have returned for refits and upgrades?
052D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_052D_destroyer
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055
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_055_destroyer
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