Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has attended the commissioning ceremony of three naval vessels, the Changzheng-18, the Dalian, and the Hainan.

The vessels were delivered to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy and placed in active service on Friday at a naval port in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province.

Around 2,400 representatives from the PLA Navy and vessel research and development teams attended the ceremony.

President Xi presented a PLA flag and the naming certificate to the captain and political commissar of the three vessels, respectively, and posed for a group photo with them.

After the ceremony, Xi boarded the vessels and reviewed the guards of honor. He also inspected the on board equipment, greeted the officers and soldiers and signed his name in the log.

(With input from Xinhua)