Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the commissioning ceremony of the Fujian in Hainan province on Wednesday, and boarded the vessel for an inspection tour, China's state television CCTV reported on Friday.
The Fujian is China's third aircraft carrier, with a flat flight deck and electromagnetic catapults for take-offs that make it a potentially far more powerful naval weapon than China's first two Russian-designed carriers.
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