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the new corvette Wuhai docking at a naval port in Dalian, north China's Liaoning province, on Jan. 15, 2018

the new corvette Wuhai docking at a naval port in Dalian, north China's Liaoning province, on Jan. 15, 2018

DALIAN --- The commissioning ceremony of the new corvette Wuhai of the PLA Navy was held at a naval port in Dalian, north China's Liaoning province on Monday. 

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. A grand flag-raising ceremony was later held on the corvette. 

The Type 056 corvette Wuhai, with good stealth performance and powerful surface attack and air defense capability, will undertake multiple mission such as costal patrol, fishing boats escort, attacking surface warships and submarine of the "enemy" independently or in joint operations.