中国第三艘航空母舰下水，命名“福建舰”！

我国第三艘航空母舰下水命名仪式17日上午在中国船舶集团有限公司江南造船厂举行。中共中央政治局委员、中央军委副主席许其亮出席仪式。

China launched its third aircraft carrier on Friday in Shanghai, naming it after the eastern coastal province of Fujian.

11时许，下水命名仪式开始，全场高唱中华人民共和国国歌，五星红旗冉冉升起。许其亮向接舰部队主官授予命名证书，与军地领导共同为我国第三艘航空母舰下水剪彩。随后进行掷瓶礼，香槟酒瓶碰击舰艏碎裂，舰船鸣响汽笛，船坞坞门打开，航空母舰缓缓移出船坞，停靠码头。下水命名仪式在中国人民解放军军歌声中结束。

Currently, the PLA Navy operates two carriers – CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong. Both of them have a standard displacement of around 50,000 tons and a conventional propulsion system, and use a ski jump mode for launching fixed-wing aircraft.

经中央军委批准，我国第三艘航空母舰命名为“中国人民解放军海军福建舰”，舷号为“18”。福建舰是我国完全自主设计建造的首艘弹射型航空母舰，采用平直通长飞行甲板，配置电磁弹射和阻拦装置，满载排水量8万余吨。该舰下水后，将按计划开展系泊试验和航行试验。

Upon its completion, the gigantic ship will displace more than 80,000 metric tons of water, making it the largest and mightiest warship any Asian nation has ever built and also one of the world's biggest naval vessels of all time. According to the People's Liberation Army Navy, the ship will use electromagnetic launch system, or electromagnetic catapult, to launch fixed-wing aircraft, which will give the carrier a much greater combat capability than its two predecessors that use a ramp to launch jets. With a hull code of 18, the CNS Fujian is being built at China State Shipbuilding Corp's Jiangnan Shipyard Group in Shanghai. At a launch ceremony at the shipyard on Friday morning, the carrier was towed out of its dry dock as color stripes were fired along the dock to celebrate the moment. In the next phase, the carrier will undergo mooring and sea trials to comprehensively test its overall capability and specific equipment, the PLA Navy said.

海军和中国船舶集团有限公司领导董军、袁华智、雷凡培、杨金成，以及军地有关部门领导、舰艇科研生产单位的干部职工和部队官兵代表参加仪式。

记者：赵磊

来源：新华社 中国日报