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China increased the defense budget by 7.5%, said- no country is our target

China Defense Budget for 2019, China has presented an immunity budget of 1.19 lakh million Yuan.China has justified the rise in its defense budget this year and said that it has been done for national security and military reforms, Keeping in mind that any other country.

China has increased its defense budget by 7.5 percent for the year 2019. This information has been given in the draft budget report presented in the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) of China. NPC started on Tuesday.

For the year 2019 China has presented an immunity budget of 1.19 trillion yuan (about $ 177.61 billion). However, the Chinese government says that this time the defense budget is going down a little. According to the Chinese government, the defense budget of 2018 was up 8.1 percent.

Terming China's defense budget as reasonable and appropriate, according to China's official news agency Xinhua, the 13th NPC spokesman Zhang Yasui said that the aim of this enhancement is to fulfill the country's demand of national security and military reforms with Chinese characteristics. . '

The spokesman said that this defense expenditure is to protect national sovereignty, security and regional integrity, and not to threaten any other country. Yasui said, "China will remain on the path of peaceful development and adopt a defense policy that will be of defensive nature."

He said, "Whether a country is a military threat to someone else or not, it does not fix its defense budget, but by the diplomatic and national defense policy adopted by it".

China has been raising one point in its national defense budget since 2016, after two points increase in the defense budget for nearly five years. In 2016, its defense budget increased by 7.6 percent, followed by 7 percent in 2017 and 8.1 percent in 2018.

Zhang claimed, "Many big countries spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense, while China spent only 1.3 percent of GDP on defense in 2018."

China's defense budget of 2018 was about $ 175 billion, which was almost three times the defense budget of India. On the other hand, the US Congress approved a massive defense budget of $ 717 billion for the fiscal year 2019.

India's defense budget was 2.98 lakh crore last year, while this year it has increased by 6.87 per cent to 3.18 lakh crore. China has made major changes in its army in recent years, including the expansion of Navy and Air Force. On the other hand, the number of soldiers of the army, ie Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), has been reduced to about 3 lakh. Despite this deduction, China's army is the world's largest army, with about 20 million soldiers.