 As the design was completed, the price of the proposed new ship exceeded what PLAN could afford and the project was in danger of being cancelled again.Just as the second stage of the development of the Chinese fleet replenishment ship was about to be yet again put on hold, there was an unexpected turn of fortune that saved the project from being scrapped.After the breakup of Soviet Union at the end of 1991, Ukraine was eager to sell a half completed replenishment ship built for the Soviet navy.