BUILDING A STRONG NAVY

President Xi Jinping delivers a speech after a review of the navy of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army on April 12 in the South China Sea， where he pledged to speed up its modernization.

Taking part in the review were more than 10，000 service personnel， 48 vessels and 76 aircraft， including the aircraft carrier Liaoning. More than half of the vessels were commissioned after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012.