San Diego Union-Tribune

September 18, 2006_San Diego, CA_People's Liberation Army (Chinese Navy) sailors head to a tour bus from Pier 2 at San Diego Naval Base at 32nd Street, after arriving on Qingdao, a destroyer, along with Hongzehu, a support ship, at the navy base, Monday morning. The group was headed to the San Diego Zoo, where they disembarked and to view the Midway and the Star of India, from their buses. This makes only the third visit by Chinese Navy ships to a mainland U.S. port (the second to San Diego; the other was in 1997). The ships will make a 2-day port call, and participate in a search-and-rescue exercise with U.S. Navy units off the coast. _Mandatory Credit photo by Laura Embry/San Diego Union-Tribune/Zuma Press, copyright 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune