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Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company is a major Chinese state-owned shipyard in Dalian, Liaoning, with roots in a dockyard founded in 1898 and a current portfolio that spans naval vessels, merchant ships, offshore engineering, ship repair, conversion, scrapping, and heavy industrial equipment. Official company materials describe DSIC as part of the China Shipbuilding Industry corporate system and emphasize its long role in producing surface warships for the People's Liberation Army Navy.

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DSIC occupies an unusually important place in China's naval-industrial base because it combines large commercial shipbuilding capacity with surface-combatant and carrier work. The company's own overview says it can provide lifecycle services from research and design through construction, repair, conversion, and dismantling, while also operating across five industrial sectors: military projects, shipbuilding, offshore equipment, repair and scrapping, and heavy industrial projects.

For the catalog, DSIC is most visible through modern PLAN ships rather than small arms or export land systems. Public sources connect the Dalian yard to China's first domestically built aircraft carrier Shandong, the sole Type 051B / Luhai-class destroyer Shenzhen, and multiple Type 055 / Renhai-class large destroyers. Independent naval reporting also describes Dalian as one of the two principal yards, alongside Jiangnan in Shanghai, constructing recent Chinese guided-missile destroyers.

Naval shipbuildingAircraft carriersGuided-missile destroyersMerchant shipsOffshore engineering equipmentShip repair, conversion, and dismantling

Notable Systems

Type 002 Shandong aircraft carrier, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy ski-jump aircraft carrier, Naval Systems

Type 002 Shandong aircraft carrier

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy ski-jump aircraft carrier

People's Daily / China Daily reporting identified Dalian Shipbuilding Industry as the carrier's manufacturer during Shandong's 2018 sea-trial period, and the connected catalog record covers the commissioned carrier.

Sources: People's Daily Shandong sea-trial report
Type 055 / Renhai-class destroyer, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer or cruiser class, Naval Systems

Type 055 / Renhai-class destroyer

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer or cruiser class

Naval News describes Dalian Shipbuilding as one of the principal yards building recent PLAN guided-missile destroyers and reports continued Type 055 production activity at Dalian.

Sources: Naval News Dalian Type 055 production report, China Daily Type 055 service report
Type 051B / Luhai-class destroyer, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer class, Naval Systems

Type 051B / Luhai-class destroyer

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer class

The Type 051B record represents Shenzhen, a Dalian-built one-ship destroyer class that helps show DSIC's bridge role between older PLAN destroyers and later large surface combatants.

Sources: DSIC official company overview

Manufacturer History

  1. Dalian shipyard lineage begins

    DSIC's official overview traces the company's origin to 1898 and describes more than a century of development in China's shipbuilding industry.

    Sources: DSIC official company overview

  2. Post-1949 naval output becomes a core identity

    The official company overview says DSIC has built hundreds of naval ships across dozens of types since the founding of the People's Republic of China, including early PRC gunboat, guided-missile submarine, guided-missile destroyer, and replenishment-vessel milestones.

    Sources: DSIC official company overview

  3. Shandong conducts a Dalian sea trial

    People's Daily, carrying China Daily reporting, said China's first domestically designed aircraft carrier left Dalian Shipbuilding Industry for its second sea trial in August 2018.

    Sources: People's Daily Shandong sea-trial report

  4. New Type 055 production reported at Dalian

    Naval News reported that Dalian Shipbuilding had launched a new Type 055 large destroyer and was increasing destroyer production activity at its Dagushan facility.

    Sources: Naval News Dalian Type 055 production report

Subsidiaries
DSIC Changxing Shipyard Co., Ltd.
Website links
Official websiteOfficial company overviewDSIC Changxing Shipyard company profileCSIS shipyard analysis

DSIC's official English site still uses older China Shipbuilding Industry corporate wording in places, while subsidiary materials use the current China State Shipbuilding wording after the wider CSSC-CSIC consolidation. Official public pages describe broad naval-ship capacity but do not consistently list each PLAN class by the same public class names used in naval reporting.

Manufacturer Sources

  • DSIC official company overviewPublisher: Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company | Note: Official company overview supporting the 1898 origin, corporate affiliation wording, business sectors, lifecycle shipbuilding services, naval-ship production claims, and headquarters address. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • DSIC Changxing Shipyard company profilePublisher: DSIC Changxing Shipyard Co., Ltd. | Note: Subsidiary company profile identifying DSIC Changxing as a wholly owned subsidiary of Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. under China State Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • CSIS In the Shadow of WarshipsPublisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies | Note: Independent analysis describing Dalian as one of the CSSC-controlled shipyards that produce PLAN surface combatants while also attracting commercial ship orders. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • People's Daily Shandong sea-trial reportPublisher: People's Daily Online / China Daily | Note: Reports Shandong's second sea trial from Dalian, identifies Dalian Shipbuilding Industry as the carrier's manufacturer, and gives construction and trial context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Naval News Dalian Type 055 production reportPublisher: Naval News | Note: Defense reporting on Dalian Shipbuilding launching a Type 055 large destroyer, Dagushan production activity, and Dalian's role alongside Jiangnan in recent guided-missile destroyer construction. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • China Daily Type 055 service reportPublisher: China Daily | Note: Provides additional public context linking Type 055 construction to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry and Jiangnan Shipyard. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.

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Type 051B / Luhai-class destroyer, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer class, Naval Systems2008 Somali Piracy / Operation AtalantaType 051B / Luhai-class destroyerChinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer classBuilt in: ChinaThe Type 051B, also called the Luhai class, is a single-ship Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer class built around Shenzhen (DDG 167). Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company built the experimental, modular destroyer as a bridge toward later PLAN surface combatants, and Shenzhen is directly documented in China's 2009 Gulf of Aden counter-piracy escort mission.
Type 055 / Renhai-class destroyer, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer or cruiser class, Naval Systems2022 Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, South China Sea DisputesType 055 / Renhai-class destroyerChinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer or cruiser classBuilt in: ChinaThe Type 055, also called the Renhai class, is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy guided-missile destroyer class built as a large multirole surface combatant for carrier escort, surface-action-group command, air defense, and missile strike missions. Public evidence ties the class to the 2022 Taiwan Strait crisis exercises and South China Sea disputed-feature patrols, while open naval references emphasize its 180-meter hull, 112-cell universal vertical launch system, Type 346B sensor fit, and cruiser-like magazine and command capacity.
Type 002 Shandong aircraft carrier, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy ski-jump aircraft carrier, Naval SystemsType 002 Shandong aircraft carrierChinese People's Liberation Army Navy ski-jump aircraft carrierBuilt in: ChinaThe Type 002 Shandong is China's first domestically built aircraft carrier and the PLAN's second operational carrier, a conventionally powered STOBAR ship that extends the Liaoning design with a smaller island, Type 346A radar, and a larger expected air wing. Commissioned at Sanya on 17 December 2019 as hull number CV-17, Shandong has since been tracked on repeated Western Pacific and South China Sea deployments rather than documented combat use.