China is set to increase defense spending this year by 7.2% to 1.56 trillion yuan ($230 billion), according to a draft released Sunday by the Ministry of Finance. China's defense budget grew by 7.1% last year to 1.45 trillion yuan. China's air force shows off its L15 Falcon trainer at...
China Moderates Defense-Spending Growth.The article reports on the decision of China to increase its defense budget by 7.5% in 2010, which is said to be the smallest increase made by the country in two decades.FAIRCLOUGHGORDONGaoSenEBSCO_bspWall Street Journal Eastern Edition...
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Steady and appropriate growth of defense spending is necessary because the Chinese armed forces have been modernizing to keep up with the country's development, said Major General Chen Zhou, research fellow at the Academy of Military Sciences affiliated with thePeople's Liberation Army(PLA). A lar...
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China will increase its defense spending this year by 7.2% to around $230 billion, the Finance Ministry said on Sunday
China’s defense budget rose by 10.1 percent last year. The last time the defense budget rose by a proportion similar to that suggested by Fu was 2010, when it increased by 7.5 percent. This year’s planned increase reflects China’s national defense needs and fiscal revenue, she said. ...
China's annual defense budget will remain single-digit growth for the eighth year in a row, with an increase of 7.2 percent in 2023, according to a draft budget on Sunday. The world's second largest economy's planned defense spending will be 1.5537 trillion yuan (about 224.79 billion U.S...
China has expanded its defense budget by 7.2%, up slightly from last year’s 7.1% rate of increase. That marks the eighth consecutive year of single-digit percentage increases in what is now is now the world's second-largest military budget.
on defense in the coming year. that’s up from 1.3 trillion yuan ($180 billion) last year representing a 6.6% boost, the lowest percentage increase in at least two decades. the military budget has dipped during periods of slower economic growth, but has also been dropping steadily from th...