About 11,000 tickets to visit two People’s Liberation Army Navy ships will be distributed free of charge to the public from Saturday.

PLA Navy training vessel Qi Jiguang and landing ship Yimeng Shan will be docked in Hong Kong on Wednesday - National Day - and on Thursday, and will be open to ticket-holding members of the public at Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base, the Ministry of National Defense announced on Thursday.

From 10 am on Saturday, members of the public can log in to the PLA Hong Kong Garrison’s official WeChat account, “Xiang Jiang Li Jian”, to complete registration and reserve tickets.

Tickets will be released in batches three times daily - at 10 am, 3 pm, and 8 pm - on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Applicants need to submit personal data including their names and information on their identification documents to register, and each applicant can apply for one ticket only.

Children aged 11 or under do not require a ticket but must be accompanied by an adult.

The ships will be docked at the Ngong Shuen Chau Barracks on Stonecutters Island and open to the public from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm on both days.

The two-day stop in Hong Kong is part of the ships’ scheduled far-sea training mission, starting at the end of September.

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Commissioned in February 2017, the Qi Jiguang - named after a military general from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and with a full displacement of nearly 10,000 metric tons - is a state-of-the-art training ship equipped with advanced educational facilities, which has previously completed several ocean-going training missions.

The Yimeng Shan, named after a group of mountains in Shandong province, has a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, and first entered service with the East Sea Fleet in February 2016.