The national defense budget is the most important topic of the two sessions every year, and the year-on-year increase in spending in 23 years is 72%, up to 156 trillion yuan. At present, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the war in the Middle East are still spreading, and the situation in the South China Sea, East China Sea and Taiwan Strait is not peaceful. Will China's defense spending grow significantly this year?
According to public data, China's defense spending budget for 2024 is 16,655400 million yuan, an increase of 72%, looking back at the period from 2016 to 2023, China's defense budget increased in order. 1% and 72%, it is not difficult to see,China's defense budget has maintained single-digit growth for nine consecutive years.
However, the issue of "very high" Chinese defense spending is still favored by the Western world, and the argument that "worried" China's defense budget is too high has never stopped.
In the 10 years from 2014 to 2023, the United States accounted for 40% of the world's total military spending in the past 10 years, always ranking first in the world, and according to the bill signed by Biden in December last yearThe U.S. Fiscal Year 2024 actual discretionary defense budget is $8,863$4.9 billion, or 3. percent of the U.S. GDP in 20242%This amount has once again set a new record for US defense spending, and has already exceeded the combined military spending of the next nine countries.
China's military spending in 2024 is 167 trillion yuan, equivalent to about $231.3 billion, is just a quarter of the US defense budget of $886 billion this year, and the absolute number is not enough to worry about in front of the United States.
Moreover, although China's total defense spending has been the second largest in the world since 2009, its military spending as a percentage of GDP has been below 15%, compared to 3 in the United States21% and 2 in the UK41% compared to 2 in India11%, and Saudi Arabia is as high as 798%，If this is the standard, the potential for medium and high cost is not small.
In addition, China has also actively participated in the system of transparency of joint spending, and since 2008, it has submitted a report on military spending for the previous fiscal year to the United Nations every year.
Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, the research and development test of new **, the maintenance of daily equipment, and the salary and benefits of military officers and soldiers all need money, 1The military expenditure of 66 trillion yuan is quite restrained for China, so is China's current defense expenditure budget really enough?
Let's take the army as an example, the cost of a 99A main battle tank is about 4 million US dollars, and the cost is on the one hand, replacing parts, maintenance, returning to the factory for overhaul in about 200 hours, and scrapping in 400 hours. At the missile level, an anti-aircraft missile as large as the Hongqi-16 costs millions of dollars per shot, and the most expensive Dongfeng-41 has a manufacturing cost of about 100 million US dollars.
As for the Air Force, don't worry about it for now.
In the next 3 to 5 years, the Chinese Air Force will face the task of replacing more than 500 fighters, and it is not a small amount to simply count the fuel consumed and the subsequent maintenance costs.
There are more than 1,000 third-generation aircraft like J-10 in China, and the flight cost per hour is not less than 300,000 yuan, according to the annual flight time of each 200 hours, it is at least 60 billion a year, which is just an ordinary third-generation aircraft, considering that the Air Force also needs to be equipped with bombers, transport aircraft, tankers, early warning aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, etc., which require strong military support.
As for the navy, it burns even more money, and the aircraft carrier is called a gold-swallowing beast at sea, which small countries cannot afford to build, and large countries cannot afford to raise it. The cost of the Shandong ship is about 48 billion yuan, the cost of the Fujian ship is more than 50 billion yuan, and a Type 055 destroyer is almost 6.5 billion, and the unit price of a Type 052D destroyer is about 3.5 billion yuan, and the 100,000-ton Navy "dumplings" will be launched in 23 years, and the "dumplings" in 2024 will naturally not pull the crotch.
Seeing this, is it not a feeling of 16655400 million yuan of military spending, instantly stretched?
In 2023, there will be as many as 183 regional and local conflicts around the world, the highest in nearly 30 years, and in 2024, the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will be delayed.
If the war is not won, there is no point in keeping the money, China does not engage in an arms race, and second, it does not engage in military bullying.
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