The Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece 'People's Daily' was quoted by its subsidiary Global Times on February 2, 2015, as revealing that construction of China's second aircraft carrier appears to be imminent. It said that on Saturday, the official microblog of the Changzhou city government in east China's Jiangsu province posted that a local company, Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group, has won a tender to supply cabling for "China's second aircraft carrier." The post was reproduced in a report by the Changzhou Evening News the same day, but both the microblog post and the article were deleted shortly after publication.
(Comment: According to Global Times, the Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group was a supplier of China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which was commissioned in September 2012.)
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