A farewell ceremony is held for a Chinese navy fleet at a port in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 15, 2024. A new fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy set sail from a military port in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang Province on Sunday to take over an escort mission from the previous fleet in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia. (Photo by Han Lin/Xinhua)