You've got it. This is their Langley.
They also bought the Minsk and took it apart. I suspect that part of their plans is to gain insight into how to design and build large Naval vessels. The next step is building from the keel up in their own shipyards, to their own design.
If you're going to match the U.S. carrier for carrier, you have start with one, then two, then three,...
When they get a suitable enough carrier force they can lean on the neighboring Asian nations a little harder. I expect that new large shipbuliding and drydocking facilities are underway in China and they're gaining practical deep ocean, large ship experience with the merchant fleet and producing a generation of trained sailors whilst doing so. Look what the Japanese accomplished between the time of the slap in the face by the Royal Navy in the 1860s and WWII---that's just in one man's lifespan.
Asians are potentially vastly more dangerous as opponents than our standard muslim boogeymen.