The Air Force (PLAAF) deploys the system, and possibly the army (PLA) also.
The initial batch of 80 ~ 100 examples were delivered to the PLAAF between 2004 and 2006, while it was estimated that a total of 300 aircraft may be required by the PLAAF and PLA Navy.
Hongdu evaluated the Yak-152K design in March 2004 and concluded that the aircraft could meet all PLAAF requirements.
The PLAAF began to search for a successor to its forty-year-old CJ-6 basic trainer as early as 1993.
Further test and evaluation of the aircraft was carried out by the PLAAF until early 2004, when the aircraft was officially certified for design finalisation.
下一代初级教练机的理论评估在2003年被PLAAF和洪都公司完成了。
*空*(PLAAF)部署了该系统，陆*(PLA)可能也装备了该系统。
In order to save development time and costs, CAIGC designed the new aircraft based on its JJ-7 fighter-trainer, which has been serving with the PLAAF since the early 1980s.
Following Russia's rejection to sell any Tu-22M BACKFIRE bombers to China, it remains to be seen whether and how the PLAAF will replace its obsolescent strategic bomber force.
为了要节省发展时间和费用，CAIGC基于它的JJ- 7战斗-教练机设计新飞机，已从1980年早期以后在PLAAF中服役。
PLA空*（PLAAF）已经把一些退役歼-7战斗机改装成无人靶机，在空对空和地对空武器测试中去模拟敌方飞机。
当老化的初教-6型不再符合*空*（PLAAF）飞行员培训需求，在2006年南昌洪都飞机工业集团开始发展第二代初级教练机。
