According to the media report “Navy received Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate from the U.S. at the same time return back to country on May 16 has become a military matter”, Navy Headquarter today the 26th to explain as followed:

“Guanghua project” has already based on the plan at the U.S. to complete the repair at Taiwan, to wait for the two fleets to return back to country, and through the assistance of U.S. technical staff, to complete the assembling of the combat system equipment and the testing of system integration.

After the combat system equipment has completed integration testing and staff training, estimated on July of 2018 to execute the completion ceremony, to formally joining navy combat series.

Concerning the President to host the completion ceremony in Penghu, it is purely conjecture by the media, which is not in line with the fact.