The Type 054 has a stealthy hull design with sloped surfaces, radar absorbent materials, and a reduced superstructure clutter.

It retained the HQ-7 SAM, an improved version of the French Crotale, from the preceding Type 053H3; the HQ-7 had a ready-to-fire 8-cell launcher, with 16 stored in the automatic reloader.

[1] On November 28, 2012, Ma'anshan, Zhoushan, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Poyanghu integrated supply ship formed a naval open sea training fleet , Passing through the Miyako Strait in batches and entering the waters of the Western Pacific to carry out routine training.

During the exercise, Ma'anshan and Changzhou ship-borne helicopters dropped several war mines and successfully destroyed the target.

In April 2014, Ma'anshan and other destroyers of the PLA Navy's East China Sea Fleet conducted formation anti-submarine and anti-missile training.