The military budget of China in 2007 financial year

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The military budget of China in 2007 financial year is 44.94 billion dollars,which is increased 17.8% by last year and which is equipollence to 1.66% of the China GDP of last year
我国一贯坚持按照国防建设与经济建设协调发展的方针合理安排国防费。近年来，随着中国经济的发展，国防费用有所增加。根据国务院提请十届全国人大五次会议审议批准的2007年中央预算草案中的国防费预算为3509.21亿元，约合449.4亿美元。国防费预算比上年预算执行数增加529.9亿元，增长17.8%。国防费预算占当年全国财政支出预算的7.5%。2004年国防支出占全国财政支出的比重为7.7%，2005年为7.3%，2006年为7.4%，与前几年相比，所占比重大体持平。　

　　2007年中国增加的国防费主要用于三个方面：一是提高军队人员工资和津贴标准，保证部队官兵及离退休干部收入水平随着经济社会的发展得到相应提高；二是提高军队公务事业费和伙食费标准，改善部队官兵训练、生活条件； 三是适度增加装备建设经费，提高军队在信息化条件下的防卫作战能力。

　　我注意到国际社会有人对中国国防费非常关注，所以我介绍了今年国务院提请人大审议批准的今年国防预算草案之后，我想指出几点。　

　　1、从上个世纪的1979年到1989年，我国国防费实际平均每年下降5.83%。近些年来，中国在经济发展的基础上，逐步增加国防费，但是这种增长仍然属于弥补国防基础薄弱的补偿性增长。2、近些年来，与其他一些国家特别是大国相比，中国的国防费，无论是绝对数，还是其占国民生产总值的比重，还是其占财政支出的比重，都处于比较低的水平。以2005年为例，2005年中国国防费约合306.46亿美元，相当于美国的6.19%，英国的52.95%，法国的71.45%，相当于你们日本的67.52%。　

　　2005年国防费占国内生产总值的比重，中国是1.35%，美国占4.03%，英国占2.71%，法国占1.93%。2005年中国国防费占财政支出的比重为7.3%，同年，美国国防费占政府财政支出的比重为20.04%，法国占11.41%，德国占9.2%。

　　3、我要特别强调指出的是，中国坚持走和平发展道路，坚持奉行防御性的国防政策。中国的国防旨在维护国家的安全和统一，确保实现全面建设小康社会的目标。中国没有能力也没有意图与任何国家进行军备竞赛。中国不会对任何国家构成威胁。
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I will not translate the words above,because my poor English.

And what do you think about this?

This budget is nealy as much as Japan,and maybe next year China will exceed Japan.So,will China become a real threaten to Japan or USA?

Do you think China will have the power to unite Taiwan and mainland? and when??
 
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No, PLA is just in the beginning stage of acquiring some modern platforms. It still has a big to go. The interesting part is that it's military budget seems to be increasing at the same rate that the rest of its government spending is increasing. So the fact that the military budget increase is higher than economic growth is a little deceiving.
 
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The commerce surplus is increasing too,so the government need to spend more and a lot of place need more.
In fact, the Chinese government consider that as the economy of mainland increasing,taiwan will be much more rely on mainland in economic area.And finally the nation will be united.It' like a kind of peaceful evolvement.Will it be possible?
And if the USA intervened China to solve the taiwan issue,as the core interest of Chinese government,do you think China will use nuclear weapon to solve the taiwan issue?
 
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ofone said:
The commerce surplus is increasing too,so the government need to spend more and a lot of place need more.
In fact, the Chinese government consider that as the economy of mainland increasing,taiwan will be much more rely on mainland in economic area.And finally the nation will be united.It' like a kind of peaceful evolvement.Will it be possible?
And if the USA intervened China to solve the taiwan issue,as the core interest of Chinese government,do you think China will use nuclear weapon to solve the taiwan issue?
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It is unlikely that China would resort to nuclear weapons unless it was a retaliatory move. China is clearly outmatched in terms of its nuclear arsenal vis-a-vis the US; a first strike would be suicidal for China.
 
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It is unlikely that China would resort to nuclear weapons unless it was a retaliatory move. China is clearly outmatched in terms of its nuclear arsenal vis-a-vis the US; a first strike would be suicidal for China.
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How you know how many nuclear warhead China has I guess you get it from FAS or strategy page column. No one has any access to China nuclear arsenal It is highly secret. So nobody exactly know How many nuclear missile China has But they say that they will use military force if Taiwan declare themselves independent win or loose.
 
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Spike said:
It is unlikely that China would resort to nuclear weapons unless it was a retaliatory move. China is clearly outmatched in terms of its nuclear arsenal vis-a-vis the US; a first strike would be suicidal for China.
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But there are projects be prepared in some instances,China will use nuclear weapons to USA.And even have a porject in which China will send all nuclear weapon to south pole and north pole in some uttermost instances.It's the most terrible project I ever heard.

And this summer,in the "peace mission 2007",China and Russia will suppose to be attacked by nuclear weapon,and do some training.....

It seems like China do not afraid to be attacked by nuclear weapon :confused:
 
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Most of the militay budget is used to increase the wages of serviceman. PLA adjusted the wage standard last year, which raised the wages doubled
 
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It is rather evident that, save for a selective economic disaster hitting just China but not Taiwan, ROC just doesn't stand a chance in the long term. It can either A) increase its defense spending to try to keep China away, and bankrupt its economy in the process, or B) keep the spending at a sustainable level and eventually be 'forced', be it by peaceful or military means to reunite with the mainland. Of course, when i talk about long term, i mean at least two decades, if not more.
 
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Most of the militay budget is used to increase the wages of serviceman. PLA adjusted the wage standard last year, which raised the wages doubled
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Except that the official figures are rot. China is far from just increasing the wages of its troopers - a big chunk of money is going on purchases. It's just that it hides it from official scrutiny. Even the official government auditors aren't allowed to examine the military budget.

So let's see, what's the likely minimum? SIPRI was $41 billion in 2005. Add 14.7% for 2006 and 17.8% this year - that gives $55.4 billion. At the least.

Personally I wonder what's behind this even faster acceleration. I don't think it bodes well for regional security.
 
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Personally I wonder what's behind this even faster acceleration. I don't think it bodes well for regional security.
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U.S. military spending has grown considerably over the last few years - I think it's currently about 4% of GDP. If you look at China's (less than?) 2% of GDP in this light, it's really not much of a response at all. China has other priorities, but it doesn't want to get so far behind as to be easy pickings.

Then of course there's increased talk of Japan changing its constitution to allow offensive military operations. That's probably an even bigger driver for the Chinese than the U.S. build-up. You can argue about whether or not fear of the Japanese is sensible in the 21st century, but it's much more difficult to be objective when your grandparents were subject to a brutal occupation.

... Ami.
 
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