The Mil Mi-8 helicopter and three camouflaged Fantans aboard the replica carrier’s “flight deck”. Further south at Yantian, Q-5s may also be seen displayed on the former Soviet carrier Minsk.

A study in grey - Nanchang Q-5 Fantan “30381” leads the charge aboard the bizarre concrete carrier replica at the Oriental Green Boat Park, west of Shanghai, photographed in September 2013. To see the park and its extraordinary exhibit from above, put co-ordinates N31.105061, E121.014196 into the “Fly to” box in Google Earth.