Me and China’s first aircraft carrier
Jadera Habil, from the Kazak ethnic group, who are known as “people on horseback”, had never seen the ocean until she enlisted with the Chinese Navy when she was in college. During her five years of service, she learned not only how to swim, but how to operate a ship; CNS Liaoning, China’s first aircraft carrier.
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