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Chinese tanker Hua Chuan

Chinese tanker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ109973774 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hua Chuan (华川) tanker is the first military/civilian dual use oil tanker built in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Built by Guangzhou Shipyard, the 6000 ton tanker first entered service in March 2013, and is usually deployed for civilian use in general. When activated for military use, it acts as a replenishment oiler (AOR), a mission it first performed on October 25, 2014, thus proving the design was successful.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chinese tanker Hua Chuan” is chinese tanker. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chinese, tanker and Chuan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chinese, tanker and Chuan is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q109973774. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chinese tanker Hua Chuan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.