Chinese navy corvette project received ten 056
January 26, 2014 at the naval base in Shantou (Guangdong) China was officially entered in the Southern fleet PLA Navy corvette (small frigate)
Jieyang (side number "587") project 056 (Jiangdao class) - as the tenth part of the ship Project transferred to the Chinese navy in less than a year.
Jieyang Corvette was built at shipyard Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuiding Sompany in Guangzhou, which is part of the State Shipbuilding Corporation, China Shipbuilding State Corporation (CSSC), and was launched on January 28, 2013.
Program of mass construction in China corvettes (small frigates) 056 project is carried out on the four shipyards - in addition to the shipyard Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuiding Sompany in Guangzhou, also participate in the program shipyards Hudong Shipyard (Shipbuilding Association Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group) in Shanghai, Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Company in Wuhan and Dalian Liaonan Shipyard in Dalian. Head corvette this type
Bengbu (side number "582") was built by Hudong Shipyard, where construction began in 2010, launched on May 22, 2012, transferred to the factory sea trials November 6, 2012 and handed over the PLA Navy February 25, 2013 . Total from February to October 2013 in the Chinese fleet was introduced eight corvettes of project 056, and two more - in January 2014
(Jieyang and delivered to the Navy on January 8
Ji'an built Hudong Shipyard). For at least another ten corvettes of this type are now in China in various stages of construction (including eight - in the completion afloat or on sea trials).
Of the ten corvettes 056 project included now in the PLA Navy, two are in the Northern Fleet, three - Eastern Fleet, and five - the South Sea Fleet.