You're looking at a very small ship used for demo with only 125 TEU capacity and 4 containers across its width.
I'm guessing either they are disposable, go back to land or get caught by a net somewhere.The recent pictures on the deck of the cargo ship shows how really simple the landing gears are with little on the way of retraction and hydralics mechanism which points even more to the gears just being jettisonable.
This picture also made me realize why things are colored the way they are. With the gray cab, the emals ramp on here looks just like containers on a deck from a distance (and the CIWS and radar blend in to the background too). So, unless you have drones/air assets or tracked it from the onset, from a distance, this ship isn't going to stick out as abnormal, until you are up close. Clever.When you have EMALS everything looks like a carrier
At this pace, given its profound impact to not just PLA but all military watchers and possible insight on shift of perception of future naval warfare by PLAN, I think this container ship deserves its own thread in Navy section, and I have a strong feeling that it is not the end of its "transformations" and there are more wacky things to be displaced on it.
I would go farther. I think the actual subject is "Componentized (or Containerized) Weapons". I do not think ships is the only place you will see this.
Not only that but if you look at the bottom left you will see a different type of VLS, looks like it could hold 8-16 missiles in a single container
Does anyone find these draft marks very strange?