For a long time, China's military equipment and naval forces were not an exception to the Soviet legacy. The first Chinese aircraft carrier "Liaoning" is actually an unfinished Soviet aircraft carrier "Varyag", which Ukraine sold with all the documentation to China in 1999 for a ridiculous 20 million dollars. By the way, at that time the Chinese leadership swore that no one would finish the ship and it would be used as a floating hotel and entertainment center. For more convincing the ship was purchased by a company from Macau - Chinese Las Vegas.