- Security domain
- Sea
- What it is
- service · service (level 3)
- Founded
- 1949
- Acknowledged by
- China's National Defense in the New Era (State Council Information Office white paper, 2019) (white paper)
- Active headcount
- 384,000 (2025) estimated, medium confidence
- Headcount source
- Wikipedia infobox, People's Liberation Army Navy (IISS Military Balance)
- Identifiers
- factbase.org/org/HN3V2EEC04 · Q755179
Beneath it
Platforms it operates
From the service's own equipment list where one is published.
- Striver
- Project 956E
- Project 956EM
- Type 031 ballistic submarine
- Type 074A landing ship
- Shantou-class gunboat
- Type 052C destroyer
- Type 8105
- Type 8105 hydrographic survey ship
- Type 792 naval trawler
- Type 792 hydrographic survey ship
- Type 8154
- Type 8154 hydrographic survey ship
- Chinese sail training ship Po Lang
- Chinese tanker Hua Chuan
- Chinese roll-on/roll-off ship Chang Da Long
- Chinese roll-on/roll-off ship Zhong Tie Bo Hai 3
- Chinese roll-on/roll-off ship China Revival
- Bo Sea Pearl-class roll-on/roll-off ship
- Chinese float-on/float-off ship Zhenhua 33
- Type 919 hospital ship
- Chinese UAV mothership Fighting Shark No.1
- Chinese research ship Beidiao 991
- Chinese sailless submarine
- Dong-Lan 885-class cable layer
- Dongtuo 835-class tug
- Beituo 739-class tug
- Yanjiu-class survey ship
- Dufei-class dispatch boat
- Dukou-class dispatch boat
- Dupo-class tug
- Longma-class dive tender
- Type 910 weapon trials ship
- Datuo-class rescue and salvage ship
- Type 944 buoy tender
- Darong-class transport
- Type 039A submarine
- Deep Sea Warrior
- Type 051C destroyer
- Type 082-class minesweeper
- Type 093 submarine
- Type 054 frigate
- Type 094 submarine
- Type 22 missile boat
- Type 039 submarine
- Zubr-class LCAC
- PLA Navy landing barges
- Type 021-class missile boat
- Type 051 destroyer
- Type 051Z destroyer
- Type 051B destroyer
- Type 091 submarine
- Type 055 destroyer
- Type 054B frigate
- Type 072A landing ship
- Chinese medical evacuation ship Zhuanghe
- Chinese sonar trials ship Beidiao 993
- Chinese target ship Experiment 216
- Jinyou-class oil tanker
- Shengli-class oil tanker