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I don't think so. Type 052D destroyer is just like Type 052C destroyed which is build in small quantity. Their building pace is slow.
Type055 is the warship that excel USN AB destroyed in everything including the upgrade one.
Equip this in large number to make PLAN a formidable navy make sense.
Seeing 4 Type055 build in a single go shows how confident and satisfy for this warship. I am very sure the first 055 cruiser will get commission very fast. So that it will act as foreleader to go for sea trial and to prove all system combining as one working perfectly. Maybe 2018 April the first will commission.
ummm......by going by the outfitting times of the 052D Destroyer, the norm is around 2.5 years, though the first vessel "Kunming" was fitted out very fast in only 1.5 years. Considering that the 055 is a bigger, more complex vessel....then even if the first in class is launched later this summer, then the outfitting is done briskly, we still won't see the finished vessel, well into 2019.
In general though, even at their slowest pace, the Chinese build Destroyers, seemingly at a quicker rate than their Western counterparts.................but by far the slowest are the Indians, who take a staggering 10 years to build their Destroyers.