Faced with the continued tension between the Taiwan Strait and the Indo -Pacific region, China's military expenditure budget increased slightly for the third year this year, a year -on -year increase of 7.2 %.
The Ministry of Finance of China on Sunday at National People's Conference disclosed that this year's military expense budget is 10,000 budgets for 10,000 yuan553.7 billion yuan (about S $ 302.5 billion), an increase of 7.2 % year -on -year, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from last year.
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang on Sunday (March 5) at the opening meeting of the National People's Congress, emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the ideas of the Chinese official strong army of the Central Military Commission, implement the military strategy policy in the new era, and build around the realization of construction.The military goal for 100 years has completed the tasks given by the Communist Party of China and the people.
Li Keqiang put forward suggestions on government work this year, saying that it is necessary to comprehensively strengthen military governance, consolidate the results of national defense and military reform, accelerate the implementation of national defense development projects, and strengthen the construction of national defense science and technology and industrial capacity.
In August last year, after the Chinese PLA's President Perosi visited Taiwan, the PLA launched a military training operation around the six major regions of Taiwan's island after visiting Taiwan;Beijing is highly vigilant.
The Chinese government work report states that it is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the training of troops, innovate military strategic guidance, major military training in combat, and coordinate military struggle in all directions.However, Li Keqiang did not read this content when he read the report at the opening meeting.
Analysis: Military expense arrangements are affected by actual economic growth last year
The situation of the Taiwan Strait and India has been heating up, so that China's military expenditure budget this year has attracted particular attention.After the outbreak of China, the budget of military expenses increased to 6.6 % in 2020, reaching the lowest point of 32 years.This number has gradually increased in the past two years, and the increase in military expenditure budgets in 2021 has increased to 6.8 %; the increase in 2022 has returned to more than 7 % before the epidemic, reaching 7.1 %.
This year's military expenditure budget has increased growth, but the increase is the smallest year in three years, only 0.1 percentage points.
Chinese military commentator Song Zhongping analyzed in an interview with the United Morning Post that China ’s military expenditure arrangements this year are relatively restrained. This shows that while China’ s increase in military expenditure budget, it also has to consider the actual economic growth of last year; last year's actual economic growth was relatively low last year.Therefore, the increase in military expense budgets has also increased slightly.
But Song Zhongping pointed out that in the current economic environment, China's military budget has increased higher than last year; this shows that the Chinese government has hardly fighting for national defense construction and economic construction.
(Reporter is a special agent in Beijing)
