Ambitious Chinese shipbuilding program according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1910-1911 no. 9

An item reported that the Chinese cabinet wanted to expend 16.500.000 taëls within 4 years for building 2 small cruisers, 2 training ships, 2 destroyers and 2 gunboats. The gunboats were already ordered in Japan, the cruisers in England.