The 2018 South China Sea Parade (simplified Chinese: 2018年南海军事演习; traditional Chinese: 2018年南海軍事演習; pinyin: 2018nián Nánhaǐ Jūnshì Yǎnxí) was a military parade held in the South China Sea near Sanya, Hainan on April 13, 2018. It is the biggest marine parade since the establishment of the Communist State in 1949 and according to the Chinese government, the biggest in 600 years.[1] It saw 50 warships, 76 fighters and more than 10,000 military officers and soldiers taking part.[2][3][4] Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, reviewed the People's Liberation Army Navy on April 11, 2018.[5][6][7] More than half of the vessels were commissioned after the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, when Xi became the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader).[8]
More than half of the vessels were commissioned after the Communist Party's National Congress in 2012, when Xi became the party's general secretary.
