Rekordny was transferred to the People's Liberation Army Navy from the USSR in October 1954 along with three other former Gnevny-class destroyers of the Soviet Navy as part of a larger transfer deal which also saw the transfer of submarines, minesweepers and torpedo boats after being with the USSR throughout the Second World War, during which she shot down two Nazi aeroplanes. She was decommissioned in April 1992 and anchored at the Naval Museum at Tsingtao.