Looking at the construction progress of the new land based test site for EMAL and steam catapult, it is very unlikely that 002 will get EMAL.
When 石头花 said work had began in 2015, I think he meant designing stage. Huahua said they have completed large part of design work over the past years.
Huahua was extremely frustracted and angered by the talks of putting EMAL on 002 because their original design was based on steam catapult. He said they have been working very hard and overtime to complete their task, some of the team members have experienced severe mental and health stress.
And if 002 will to be installed with EMAL instead of the originally planned steam catapult, they would have rework again but then everybody involved in the design works are now extremely tired physically and mentally.