QINGDAO, March 2 (Xinhua) — China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, Sunday left its homeport of Qingdao in east China’s Shandong Province on tests and training missions.

The journey is the first of its kind for Liaoning in 2014 and is part of its yearly tests and training schedule, according to sources with he People’s Liberation Army Navy.

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