English: The Guiyang warship was originally a US Fletcher-class destroyer, numbered DD-540. It participated in many battles in World War II. It was handed over to the Taiwan by the US arms sales in 1971. On December 2 of the same year, the commander-in-chief Song Changzhi presided over the formation ceremony and was named The Guiyang warship was numbered DD-8 (later changed to DDG-908). The ship has served in the navy for more than 27 years, during which it performed various combat exercises, strait reconnaissance and patrol, outlying island transportation, escort, and fishery missions, with outstanding performance; on July 16, 1999, it was successfully decommissioned.