Combat power on the Chinese navy in the world, how can the first few rows, scholars present there is no unified point of view. If the sea-based nuclear forces are taken into account, China does with the United States, Russia, Britain, France and tie. But does not allow easy use of nuclear weapons, while many of the world small countries have a higher flexibility of the aircraft carrier, China's current, not yet. Other countries such as Japan, although limited military action, but a high degree of naval modernization, information technology equipment, such as self-contained air power, strength, size is not small.

How to naval combat power of a comprehensive national assessment of it? Academic common solution is to force the Navy subdivided into multiple indicators of war, and through the statistics and scoring methods to calculate the total score ranking.

The agencies listed in the index vary, the total score of each index is different in weight. Research institutions also tend to group by subjective judgments of senior experts, to the maximum number of expert consensus prevail. Because of this, the more professional military experts and research institutions, but more difficult to give accurate and non-controversial position.

Recognition of domestic military enthusiasts higher way of saying is: the first U.S. Navy, the Russian prestige by more than the former Soviet Union was second, a veteran of the British naval power in the third and Japan fourth, fifth, France, China sixth. However, the ranking authority is still insufficient. According to different assessment methods, the Chinese navy to ten from the world's third after is possible.

Chinese naval hardware and software are to be improved

Navy's combat is the "live", including the quality of weapons and other hardware factors and quality of personnel, command system and other software factors.

On the hardware side, China has a good defense system, military science and technology to track the world's advanced level, with a strong independent development capacity, and the introduction of weapons, integration, imitation ability, but a weak basic industries, technology has yet to be improved, this decision of the Chinese Navy's size and equipment quality also takes a long time to improve.

On the software side, ocean awareness, awareness of sea power needs to be further spread in China, the overall quality of officers and men still lagging behind compared with developed countries, to integrate water, water, sky and other means of warfare, and other services integrated The command mechanism is still not completely into the corner. In addition, the Chinese Navy has been increasing in recent years, although the experience of ocean sailing, but the combat is still biased towards coastal defense concept, the lack of the ocean and a strong opponent of the glorious history. These are also to be a bottleneck.

Key indicators are still a large gap with the powers

Comprehensive measure of the modern navy, should look at four main indicators: ship manufacturing capacity, quality and quantity of nuclear submarines, surface ships and combat performance, sea-based aviation (aircraft carrier) and the ability of ground-based air cover. From these indicators measure, China is clearly inferior to the United States, Russia, compared with Britain, France and Japan, the length of each other.