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Source record People's Daily Group · 2026-08-28

China's 'No. 1 warship,' Type 052 destroyer Harbin, retires after over 30 years of extraordinary service

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DeskChina Desk
Publishing institutionPeople's Daily Group
Source outletGlobal Times — Defense (global_times_mil)
Source languageen — an attribute of the source, not of this record
Source-stated publication date2026-08-28
Original URLhttps://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1369265.shtml
Collected at2026-08-28 22:35:58 — collection metadata, not a publication time
Content fingerprintae2fc366f292cb4f32b807ae291225423e78bac5724a79ecaa4e527e229d5abe — taken when the record was captured, over the stored original title and text
Collection run124

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Source text. People's Daily Group. "China's 'No. 1 warship,' Type 052 destroyer Harbin, retires after over 30 years of extraordinary service." Global Times — Defense, 2026-08-28. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1369265.shtml.

As held. Indo-Pacific Record, China Desk Corpus, Record 3624, Snapshot — 2026-08-29 (3,673 records).

Processing note. This record has not been screened. No judgment of any kind has been made about it.

The record number and this record path are locators inside the 2026-08-29 snapshot. Neither is a DOI, accession number, permanent identifier, public permalink, or published route. See identifiers and citation guidance.