See my post 38 and visit the links there.Thanks for the response. As I suspected, there's less than meets the eye. It's pretty amusing that they used land-based aircraft for the pics rather than simply acknowledge that they did not have an operational carrier squadron.
See my post 60. wWithin a couple of years they will have their full airwing aboard and operating. still lots to learn, but they are methodically going about it.
They have also practised and trained with three of their pre production models which are carrier qualified. They have trained one group of eight pilots with those aircraft already, who are now training more.
Here's a couple of pics of them training/qualifying off of the Liaoning earlier this year.
Liaoning Training/Qualifying with J-15 Strike Fighters
Here's a link to an earlier video of the same:
Video of take-offs and landings on the Chinese carrier