The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has commissioned a new Type 052D guided missile destroyer (Hull 176) in the beginning of 2026.
Named Loudi, the newly commissioned destroyer features upgraded radar, weapon and network systems, leading to enhanced regional air defense, sea attack and task force command capabilities.
As a new member of the destroyer family, the Loudi carried out a series of multi-subject, high-intensity comprehensive offensive and defensive combat drills. The drills featured efficient communication of information among different combat platforms, and close coordination of firepower. The exercises effectively tested the destroyer's rapid response, coordinated combat, and comprehensive anti-strike capabilities in sudden scenarios.
"The new-type warship adopts a new system and architecture, giving it enhanced capabilities in air and missile defense, sea attack, formation command, and combat. It can serve as a sharp sword for attack as well as a shield for defense. It can conduct long-range assaults and strike missions against targets while also defending friendly ships during defensive operations," said Zhang Shengwei, an officer of the destroyer Loudi.
PLA Navy commissions new Type 052D destroyer
PLA Navy commissions new Type 052D destroyer
China's BeiDou space-time industry boomed in 2025 with a total output value of 1.3323 trillion yuan (about 186.5 billion U.S. dollars), according to a white paper on its development released on Monday.
The white paper on China's BeiDou Space-time Industry Development in 2026 released by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Location Based Services (LBS) Association of China (GLAC) said that the satellite navigation industry, serving as the foundation of the BeiDou space-time sector, achieved a total output value of 629 billion yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 9.24 percent, demonstrating strong resilience and significant growth potential.
The BeiDou time-space industry is a comprehensive industrial system centered on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. It deeply integrates various technological approaches, including remote sensing, geographic information systems, mobile communications, and indoor positioning.
"The most distinctive hallmark of the BeiDou time-space industry in 2025 is its leap from satellite navigation to time-space services, demonstrating a development momentum featuring convergence of technologies, scenario-based applications, and diversified ecosystem. The industry's iterative upgrading continued to pace up, and its core competitiveness improved constantly," said Zhang Huifeng, president of the GLAC.
China has established a complete and autonomous BeiDou time-space industrial and supply chain, spanning from chips, modules, antennas, terminals to system integration and application services, with continuously improving levels of self-reliance and control.
Notably, cumulative shipments of BeiDou-compatible chips and modules have reached the scale of hundreds of millions, effectively safeguarding the secure and robust development of the industrial and supply chain.
The latest data showed that the domestic sales of BeiDou terminal products exceeded 410 million sets in 2025. Additionally, the total social stock of various terminal products equipped with BeiDou functionality has surpassed 2.2 billion sets.
"The digital transformation and intelligent upgrade across industries are comprehensively accelerating. This has led to a surge in demand for high-precision, high-reliability, real-time intelligent time-space information, products, and services, providing vast market opportunities for the development of the BeiDou time-space industry. The industrial value chain is shifting from product delivery to data operation with time-space data becoming a core factor of production, demonstrating immense developmental potential of the industry," Zhang said.
BeiDou industry output value exceeds 1.33 trln yuan in 2025
