Recently, the Seventh Fleet escort, "Xuzhou" Chinese navy ship once again become a star ship. Ship escort operations in the ocean, creating the first retaining thousands of miles then rush to the rescue ship attacked by pirates, for the first time for the evacuation of overseas Chinese and other escort vessels trapped in the "five for the first time", 3 times by the Central Military Commission, praised the leadership. This is the "lake" Chinese naval ship to break a number of ocean-going continuous records, the 054-type frigate received the award again.

Type 054 frigate is by far the most successful Chinese design of the main naval surface ships. Including the basic 054, including two of the more than 10 class ship has joined the East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet. Because short-board gas turbine technology, Chinese-made new destroyer in 10 years only a few vessels in service. On the other hand, China imported 90 European ship technology to produce high-power diesel engine to be successful, achieving a large number of Type 054 frigate commissioned. Large number of 054-type service, but also proves that China from France, Russia, the introduction of the corresponding missile, radar, fire control and many other key technologies have been fully digested. In contrast, the new 052B and 052C destroyers although advanced, but the technical aspects of power system remains to be mature.

Suitability as a tonnage of 054 type, the economy and good medium-sized ships, although the firepower and speed performance than domestic new destroyer, but more suitable for mass production. And ship technology is mature, multi-purpose ability, air defense, anti-ship weapons are a world-class, and has a helicopter hangar large enough to meet a variety of tasks. Some of China's new destroyers, including 051C, modern class Dengjun some short board, not the scope of application, such as 054 type, the lack of independent combat capability.

Although they are frigates Type 054, but 4,000 tons full load displacement of over 051 early-type destroyers, and destroyer of early par 052, and has excellent ocean-going capability. Before the advent of the 054 type, a lot of equipment the Chinese navy's "Wild World" class, "Jiang Wei" class tonnage of small, ocean-going operational ability, can only play a coastal defense mission. China life in the absence of sufficient number of destroyers, the Type 054 frigate if not, the Gulf of Aden to escort the Chinese navy's operations will be difficult so smoothly.

The performance of the Type 054 frigate, though not the world's leading, but its biggest advantage is the "performance balance." Anti-ship capabilities, air defense capabilities in the world, not necessarily the best warships, must take into account the overall performance is difficult, even in economy, reliability, endurance and other aspects of short-board. Type 054 is known as China's most successful warship design, it is because of maturity, reliability, better on the comprehensive ability to achieve the quality and quantity of unity. Type 054 in the main responsible for long-term ocean convoy operations, and for the emergence of "star ship" is not a chance phenomenon. After visiting the 054A frigate foreign military admit that this is the most successful warship design, and technology is very mature, very reliable.