BEIJING: China on Saturday commissioned a long range surveillance frigate to beef up its presence in the South China Sea. The ship named Yueyang is capable of long-range surveillance, air defence and anti-submarine operations, the state run Xinhua news agency reported. At a ceremony held in
Sanya, a port city in south China's Hainan Province, Jiang Weilie Commander of the South China Sea fleet, raised a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) flag and endorsed a naming certificate for the naval unit that received the frigate, said the media reports. According to white-paper published by the Chinese authorities, the PLAN has been training different formations of combined task forces composed of new types of destroyers, frigates, ocean-going replenishment ships and shipborne helicopters to increase it blue-water capabilities. China has scaled up its naval operations in South China Sea, after Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei along with Taiwan contested its claims of sovereignty over it.
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