105 Jinan
106 Xi'an
107 Yinchuan
108 Xining
109 Kaifeng
110 Dalian
131 Nanjing
132 Hefei
133 Chongqing
134 Zuny
161 Changsha
162 Naning
163 Nanchang
164 Guilan
165 Zhanchiang
166 Zhuhai

As a result, the PRC 701 institute was instructed to develop China's first indigenous guided missile destroyer, and to base it on the Soviet Kotlin-class. The design was approved in 1967, and construction of the first Type 051 Luda class destroyer began in 1968. The first vessel was delivered to the PLAN in 1970 and commissioned in 1971. Since that time, seventeen vessels have been built, the last being commissioned into the PLAN 1993.

Viewed as obsolete when they were first commissioned, the vessels lacked effective air or anti-submarine defenses, and had little modern command and control capability. Nonetheless, the class has allowed the PLAN to develop experience and policies in operating larger surface combatants away from its immediate shores, and the class has been upgraded with more modern weapons over their life span.

Sixtreen of these vessels are still in operation, and the carry a very potent anti-surface threat with sixteen surface to surface missiles. The short range anti-air defense of the modernized vessels has been helped with the addition of an eight missile launcher for the indegenous HQ-7 missiles, although no medium to long range defense exists at all. The HQ-7 system employed is similar in characteristics to the French Crotale missile system.

It is expected that these vessels will continue in serve into the 20-teens and be replaced by the newer, far more modern and superior vessels the PLAN is now producing in its shipyards like the Type 052C Lanzhou, the Type 052B Guangzhou, and Type 051C Shenyang destroyers.