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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
阳江 [Yangjiang]	770		Huangpu SY, Shanghai		1.1991	5.1991	in service (2019)
顺德 [Shunde]	771		Huangpu SY, Shanghai		7.1994	2.1995	in service (2019)
南海 [Nanhai]	772		Jiangnan SY, Shanghai		2.1995	4.1995	in service (2019)
番禹 [Panyu]	773		Huangpu SY, Shanghai		5.1995	7.1995	in service (2019)
廉江 [Lianjiang]	774		Huangpu SY, Shanghai		9.1998	2.1999	in service (2019)
新会 [Xinhui]	775		Jiangnan SY, Shanghai		4.1999	11.1999	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	520
Displacement full, t	542
Length, m	65.4
Breadth, m	8.40
Draught, m	2.38 mean
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 SEMT-Pielstick 12PA6V 280MPC diesels
Power, h. p.	17280
Max speed, kts	33.6
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	1800(18)
Armament	770-773, 775: 2 x 3 Ying Ji-8A SSM (6 C-801), 1 x 2 - 37/63 type 76A, 2 x 2 - 30/65 type 69 774: 2 x 3 Ying Ji-8A SSM (6 C-801), 1 x 1 - 76/59 AK-176, 1 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630
Electronic equipment	770-773, 775: type 348, type 765, type 347G or (type 344, type 363) radars, JM-83 E/O director, type 900-series ECM suite, 2x type 945G decoy RL, type 88C CCS 774: type 348, type 765, Vympel MR-123-02 radars, JM-83 E/O director, type 900-series ECM suite, 2x type 945G decoy RL, type 88C CCS
Complement	47

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Project history

Variant of type 037IG with stronger armament and more powerful diesels. One (Lianjiang) was built as technology demonstrator with Russian gun armament.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Lianjiang collided twice during her service: at first time in 2001 she was nearly sunk after a collision with fast ferry on Hong Kong - Guangzhou route; at second time she sank with 13 men lost in 26.6.2006 in collision with Chinese cargo vessel, she was salvaged and recommissioned in 2008.

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