China Coast Guard

China Coast Guard
中国海警
China Coast Guard
China Coast Guard logo.jpg

Ensign of the China Coast Guard.
Active
Country People's Republic of China
Branch People's Armed Police
Type Coast Guard
Insignia
Flag Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg

The China Coast Guard (Simplified Chinese: 中国海警) serves as a coordinating body for maritime search and rescue in the territorial waters of the People's Republic of China. The China Coast Guard is the maritime branch of the Public Security Border Troops, a paramilitary police force under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

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Function

The CCG is known to perform mostly coastal and ocean search and rescue or patrols.

Equipment

The CCG has received quite a few large patrol ships that would significantly enhance their operations. Hai Guang, militia, police and other services operate hundreds of small patrol craft. For maritime patrol services, these craft are usually quite well armed with machine guns and 37mm AA guns. In addition, these services operate their own small aviation units to assist their maritime patrol capabilities. CCG operates a handful of Harbin Z-9 helicopters, and a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Harbin Y-12 STOL transport.

Roles

Roles of the CCG are diverse but include:

  • Patrol of territorial waters and disputed territories
  • Anti-smuggling, anti-piracy
  • Maritime policing and ship inspections
  • Harbour and coastal security
  • Research and survey
  • Search and Rescue
  • Fisheries protection

Command

The Chinese Coast Guard is not under an independent command. Instead, they are part of the armed police, under the local (provincial) border defense force command. The largest operational unit of the CCG is a CCG flotilla, which is a regimental-level unit in China’s military administrative hierarchy. Every coastal province has 1 to 3 Coast Guard flotillas. Currently there are twenty CCG flotillas across the country.:

  • Fujian
    • 1st Flotilla - Fuzhou
    • 2nd Flotilla - Quanzhou
    • 3rd Flotilla - Xiamen
  • Guangdong
    • 1st Flotilla - Guangzhou
    • 2nd Flotilla - Shantou
    • 3rd Flotilla - Zhanjiang
  • Guangxi
    • 1st Flotilla - Beihai
    • 2nd Flotilla - Fangchenggang
  • Hainan
    • 1st Flotilla - Haikou
    • 2nd Flotilla - Sanya
  • Hebei with 1 Flotilla - Qinhuangdao
  • Jiangsu with 1 Flotilla - Taicang
  • Liaoning
    • 1st Flotilla - Dalian
    • 2nd Flotilla - Dandong
  • Shandong
    • 1st Flotilla - Weihai
    • 2nd Flotilla - Qingdao
  • Shanghai with 1 Flotilla - Shanghai
  • Tianjin with 1 Flotilla - Tianjin
  • Zhejiang
    • 1st Flotilla - Taizhou
    • 2nd Flotilla - Ningbo

Ships

Chinese Coast Guard ships are painted white with blue stripe and wording China Coast Guard in English and Chinese.

Typical Coast Guard ships include the 130 ton Type 218 patrol boat (100 boats), armed with twin 14.5mm machine guns, assorted speedboats, and few larger patrol ships. Up until very recently, the largest ship in Chinese Coast Guard service was the 1,500 ton Type 718 cutter (#1001 Pudong).

In March 2007, it was reported that the PLAN has transferred 2 Jianghu frigates (#509 Changde & #510 Shaoxing) to the Coast Guard as and re-numbered 1002 & 1003. These ships are the largest vessels in the Coast Guard inventory.

Other boats include:

  • Haijing 35082 patrol boat
  • Haijing 35012 patrol boat
  • Haijing 31020 patrol boat
  • Haijing 33026 patrol boat

Training

The Chinese Coast Guard conducts periodic joint-training sessions with other navies, including the US Coast Guard service.[1] The Chinese Coast Guard also participates in the annual North Pacific Coast Guard Agencies Forum in Alaska, along with US, Canadian, Japanese, South Korean, and Russian Coast Guards. As part of an exchange program, members of the Chinese Coast Guard service have been assigned to serve on U.S. Coast Guard cutters.[2]

Notes

See also

External links

North: Republic of Korea Coast Guard
West: Vietnam People's Coast Guard China Coast Guard East: Japan Coast Guard
South: Philippine Coast Guard
Republic of China Coast Guard

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