(Photo/Agencies)

(Photo/Agencies)

(Photo/Agencies)

(Photo/Agencies)

By Yu Runze, Sina English

Ablaze with colors, pennants flying, China’s first aircraft carrier is presenting a splendid outlook today. People suspect the festival-like event marks the day when the carrier is enlisted in the army.

The long-awaited Chinese carrier is splendidly attired Wednesday, in northeast China’s Dalian, its birthplace.

Sailors, in uniforms, stand in Navy's Partition Queue, a naval etiquette performed when a vessel entering or leaving a harbor or when visited by friendly forces, or on the grand occasions like today.

Moreover, dressing a ship overall with banner cloth is only done in a harbor to celebrate special occasions like regattas, rallies and national festivals.

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