China decided to build a second aircraft carrier in 6 years

She reports to the media in China and Hong Kong , on Sunday , said that China is building a second aircraft carrier , which is expected to take six years , and that the country aims to acquire at least four ships of this type .


After 20 years of an increase in the military budget plans to the leaders of the Chinese Navy to develop freely operate in the depths of the open ocean is able to defend the economic interests of the growing , in addition to the disputed territories in the South China Sea and East China Sea .

Liaoning and is the first Chinese aircraft carrier , and represents a symbol of the strengthening of China's naval and Soviet-era , Beijing has purchased from Ukraine in 1998 , and re- processed in the basin of the Chinese shipbuilding .

The success in the running for Liaoning , which account for weighing 60 tons the first step , while expecting the official media and some military experts deploy aircraft carriers manufactured locally by 2020 .

In remarks published in Chinese news sites on the Internet , said Wang Min, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party in the province of Liaoning , northeast China , where the base of the first Chinese aircraft carrier , and that the second carrier being built in the port of Dalian .