Meet China’s 10,000 – tonne – class destroyers in service with PLA navy . After China’s first Type 055 guided – missile destroyer Nanchang was commissioned in 2020 , another five domestically built 10,000 – tonne – class destroyers have entered service with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army ( PLA ) Navy , namely the Lhasa , Dalian , Anshan , Wuxi , and Yan’an . The PLA Navy has achieved a leap from the third to the fourth generation of destroyers .