Chinese navy sails onto world stage

Among the important foreign military officers to participate in the parade in Qingdao is U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, who was the highest-ranking U.S. officer to visit China this year.

Roughead said earlier in Beijing that he believed military-to-military relation was important to the broad U.S-Chinaties.

He said during his talks with PLAN Commander Adm. Wu Shengli on Saturday that they exchanged views on enhancing navy-to-navy cooperation and both navies' operations off the coast of Somalia.

In fact, "inviting in and going out", which has been used to describe China's foreign trade, has been increasingly applied by the Chinese army, especially by the PLAN, in its relations with foreign military.

In November 1985, a Chinese flotilla consisting of destroyer Hefei and supply ship Fengcang visited Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It was the PLAN's first foreign visit.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei