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Monday, November 18, 2013
A Hainan aircraft carrier base says hello to Google Maps
Yulin, Hainan province
A satellite image provided by Google Maps may have unintentionally revealed the PLA Navy's second carrier base in Yulin, Hainan province, according to the Party-run Global Times.
The satellite image has captured what appears to be a trestle and breakwater structure, indicating that Hainan is potentially set to become China's second carrier base after Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, said military experts. Military figures have neither admitted nor denied inferences to the construction of the base during press conferences.
China has the right to maintain and modify its naval facility in Hainan, Geng Yangsheng, spokesperson of Chinese defense ministry, said in September in a report from Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily.
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