Type 071 amphibious transport dock
Kunlun Shan is a Type 071 amphibious transport dock ship currently in service to China's People's Liberation Army Navy. The lead ship of its class, the 25,000-ton ship was laid down in the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai in June 2006, and was launched on 21 December 2006. After finishing sea trials the ship was commissioned to the South Sea Fleet at Zhanjiang Naval Base on 30 November 2007. Its estimated production cost is 300 million USD.
The ship is named after of the Kunlun Mountains, one of the most prominent mountain range in Northwest China.
Operational history.
On 9 March 2014, the ship was deployed in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
In September 2016, the ship took part in combined naval exercises with the Russian Navy off the coasts of Guangdong.
In 2019, the ship took part in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. On the return trip in June, it had a four-day stopover in Sydney Harbour, Australia as part of a three-ship taskforce along with the Type 054A frigate "Xuchang" and the Type 903 replenishment ship "Luomahu". According to then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the naval visit was invited by the Australian Government, but the neither the New South Wales government nor the Australian public were informed ahead of the taskforce's arrival, which triggered a media frenzy among the conservative Australian media and politicians on the backdrop of rising geopolitical tension in Sino-Australian relations.
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