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The '''People's Liberation Army Navy'''{{efn|'''PLAN'''; {{zh|s=中国人民解放军海军|p=Zhōngguó Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Hǎijūn}}}}, also known as the '''People's Navy''', '''PLA Navy''' or simply '''Chinese Navy''', is the [[naval warfare]] [[military branch|branch]] of the [[People's Liberation Army]], the national [[armed forces]]military of the [[People's Republic of China]]. It is composed of five sub-branches: the [[People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force|Surface Force]], the [[People's Liberation Army Navy Submarine Force|Submarine Force]], the [[People's Liberation Army Navy Coastal Defense Force|Coastal Defense Force]], the [[People's Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] and the [[People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force|Naval Air Force]], with a total strength of 252,000 personnel, including 35,000 [[marines]] and 18,000 [[naval aviation]] personnel,{{sfn|International Institute for Strategic Studies|2024|page=256-260}} deployed among three [[theater commands of the People's Liberation Army|theater command]] [[naval fleet|fleet]]s, namely the [[North Sea Fleet|North Sea]], [[East Sea Fleet|East Sea]] and [[South Sea Fleet]].

The PLAN was formally established on 23 April 1949<ref name="中国人民解放军海军成立70周年多国海军活动新闻发布会在青岛举行">{{cite web |title = 中国人民解放军海军成立70周年多国海军活动新闻发布会在青岛举行 |url = http://www.mod.gov.cn/power/2019-04/20/content_4839865.htm |website = mod.gov.cn |publisher = [[Ministry of National Defence of the People's Republic of China]] |access-date = 18 May 2020 |language=zh }}</ref> and traces its lineage to maritime fighting units during the [[Chinese Civil War]]. Until the late 1980s, the PLAN was largely a [[riverine]] and [[littoral zone|littoral]] force ([[brown-water navy]]) mostly in charge of [[coastal defence and fortification|coastal defense]] and [[maritime patrol|patrol]] against [[Project National Glory|potential Nationalist amphibious invasions]] and [[territorial waters]] disputes in the [[East China Sea|East]] and [[South China Sea]], and had been traditionally a maritime support subordinate to the [[People's Liberation Army Ground Force|PLA Ground Force]]. Following the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]], the Chinese leadership were freed from overland border concerns with the northern neighbor and shifted towards more forward-oriented [[foreign policy|foreign]] and [[national security]] policies in the 1990s, and the PLAN leaders were able to advocate for renewed attention toward [[command of the sea]]s as a [[green-water navy]] operating in the [[marginal sea]]s within the range of coastal [[air parity]].