China's aircraft carrier passes through Taiwan Strait

The photo taken on April 26, 2017 shows that China launches the first domestically built aircraft in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

BEIJING, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese aircraft carrier passed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday to conduct scientific research tests and routine training in relevant waters of the South China Sea, according to a spokesperson for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.

The organization of the cross-regional tests and training of the homemade aircraft carrier is a normal arrangement in the process of aircraft carrier construction, is not aimed at any specific target and has nothing to do with the current situation, spokesperson Cheng Dewei said. ■