page_title: Chinese landing ship Kunlun Shan
hierarchical_section_title: Chinese landing ship Kunlun Shan
caption_attribution_description: English: CSR Report RL33153 China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress by Ronald O'Rourke dated February 28, 2014. Page 30 - Figure 12. Yuzhao (Type 071) Class Amphibious Ship With two Houbei (Type 022) fast attack craft behind Source: Photograph provided to CRS by Navy Office of Legislative Affairs, December 2010.
context_page_description: Kunlun Shan is the lead ship of China's Type 071 amphibious transport dock Yuzhao class. The ship was laid down in the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai in June 2006 and was launched on 21 December 2006. After finishing trials the ship was commissioned to the South Sea Fleet on 30 November 2007, at Zhanjiang Naval Base. Its estimated production cost is USD300 million.
  The ship carries the name of the Kunlun Mountains.
context_section_description: Kunlun Shan is the lead ship of China's Type 071 amphibious transport dock Yuzhao class. The ship was laid down in the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai in June 2006 and was launched on 21 December 2006. After finishing trials the ship was commissioned to the South Sea Fleet on 30 November 2007, at Zhanjiang Naval Base. Its estimated production cost is USD300 million.
  The ship carries the name of the Kunlun Mountains.
caption: Kunlun Shan escorted by two Houbei Type 022 missile boats underway (2010)
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