Qingdao celebrates 70 years of the Chinese navy

Organizers set up an area near the port offering a Tsingtao beer bar, a convenient store, telecommunications, haircuts, a medical room, as well as laundry facilities.

Local brand Tsingtao is among the most popular in stores, and the bar was full of people and mugs of beer, the latter continually being refilled.

Football matches and tug-of-war games were also organized for the naval members.

A naval-themed light show on Wednesday took over the skyscrapers along the city's coastal and will continue till the end of the month.