List of active People's Liberation Army Navy ships

List of active People's Liberation Army Navy ships is a list of ships currently in active service with the People's Liberation Army Navy. There are 697 ships listed below that constitute active ships, but this figure however does not include the various auxiliary vessels of the PLAN, so any official number of active ships would be much higher. A summary of ships listed below is as follows; one aircraft carrier, three amphibious transport docks, 92 landing ship tanks and landing ship medium, 24 destroyers, 45 frigates 62 submarines (of which 11 are nuclear-powered), eight corvettes, 122 missile boats, 231 patrol vessels, 107 mine countermeasures vessels and five replenishment oilers.

All ships and submarines currently in commission with the People's Liberation Army Navy were built in China, with the exception of 4 Sovremenny class destroyers, 12 Kilo class submarines and the aircraft carrier Liaoning. Those vessels were either imported from, or originated from Russia or Ukraine. As of 2008, English-language official Chinese state media no longer uses the term "People's Liberation Army Navy", instead the term "Chinese Navy" along with the usage of the prefix "CNS" for "Chinese Navy Ship" is now employed.

Amphibious warfare ships, landing ships
Note: In addition to these vessels the PLAN maintain some 170 landing craft that operate from and in conjunction with the vessels below. See; List of active landing craft of the People's Liberation Army Navy

Other auxiliary vessels
For a complete list of auxiliary vessels currently in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy please see; People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force. Note that it may contain significant inaccuracies due to use of open sources.