The guided missile destroyers Qingdao and Harbin were designed with reference to western guided missile destroyers and entered service in the late 1990s. Using American gas turbine and German diesel engine. The gun system is domestic double 100 main gun and double 37mm auxiliary gun. The air defense missile is a French sea rattlesnake, and the anti-ship missile is a domestic C80 1 anti-ship missile.

However, during this period, Japanese King Kong class and Korean KDX- 1 class multi-purpose destroyers successively served, and China still lagged behind neighboring countries. Four modern Russian destroyers were urgently introduced, and on this basis, Russian air defense missiles were introduced and applied to later warships.