On June 14, the floodgates at Jiangnan Shipyard near Shanghai opened, water rushed into the dry dock, and the highly anticipated Type 003 aircraft carrier floated. Three days later, looking ahead to the Chinese Communist Party 100th anniversary on July 1, China launched the newly designed carrier...
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