 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna August 1937, Hurumende yeChinese Kuomintang yakasaina chibvumirano chokusarwisa neUSSR. Uye, mumatsutso egore rimwe chetero, Soviet Union yakatanga kutumira I-15s sorutivi rwepurogiramu yebetsero yechiuto kuChina Air Force CAF muhondo yayo yokuzvidzivirira kuJapan. Vatyairi vendege vokuSoviet vanopfuura 250 vakazvipira kubhururuka nezvikepe 255 zveI-15 zvakapiwa kuChina mumatsutso a1937. Pakazosvika 1939, nhamba yose yePolikarpov biplanes yakaendeswa kuCAF yakasvika 347 I-15 I-15bis. The I-15bis akaona yakawanda chiito muna Soviet-Japanese pamuganhu kunetsana pamwe China-Mongolia pamuganhu. Kubva 1938-1941, I-15s muna Nationalist Air Force of China, vakarwa hondo dzakawanda zvikuru, uye skirmishes pamusoro achipinda uye achitora mauto Japanese, kusanganisira Hondo Taierzhuang, Hondo Wuhan, Hondo South Guangxi, Hondo Chongqing-ChengduThe zvakaoma biplane akanga zvikuru zvakajeka outmatched panguva debut dogfight pamusoro mutsva Mitsubishi A6M Zero murwi pamusoro Chongqing musi 13 September 1940, kunyange zvazvo I-15bis vatyairi Maj. Zheng Shaoyu, Lt. Gao Youxin, uye Lt. Xu Jixiang vakakwanisa kunanga uye kukuvadza vamwe Zeroes, pamwe Lt. Gao vachitenda akanga akapfura pasi mumwe Zeroes zvose vakadzokera mujinga Wuhan, pamwe Zeroes mana kutambura zvimwe kukuvara; zvose vatatu vatyairi avo vakapona muhondo. 