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.
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