Sailing ship ARM Cuauhtemoc of the Mexican Navy arrived here on Saturday to attend an international fleet review on April 23 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

The Cuauhtemoc was the first visiting ship to attend the naval celebration and will join another 20 foreign naval vessels from 14countries scheduled to rendezvous at the port city Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province.

The ship, named after the last Aztec emperor who died in the war against the Spanish in the 1500s, is a tall ship ordered by the Mexican Navy from Spain in 1982, with a displacement of 1800 tonnes.

The PLA Navy was founded on April 23, 1949 with nine warships and 17 boats obtained after a unit of the Kuomintang's second coastal defense fleet defected to the PLA.

(Xinhua News Agency April 18, 2009)