China to build its third domestically made aircraft carrier

Type-001A, the Chinese first domestically made aircraft carrier

China kicked off construction of a third aircraft carrier, CNS reported on Nov. 25.

In a report on the WeChat network, Xinhua said that as the second and first Chinese-built aircraft carrier was experimenting on the sea, a "next-generation carrier" is under planning.

The article, published in honor of the sixth anniversary of the first Chinese aircrafts taking-off and landing on China's first carrier, the Liaoning CNS, did not specify the details of the "the next-generation carrier, is thought to be China's third, but this article is considered China's first public acknowledgment.

Chinese watchers and foreign observers have long claimed that China has begun construction of a third aircraft carrier at the Jiangnan Group's shipyard in Shanghai, China Shipbuilding Corp. They also predicted that the third would be bigger and stronger than Liaoning and the second was unnamed.

Shipbuilding Corp. of the state of China declined to comment on the issue.

Chinese Navy officials also did not respond to the press on November 26th.

(According to Ecns.cn, The Week)