China’s Military Budget: Why It Is Growing and Will Continue to Grow Fast

... Russians, Americans and Europeans can confine themselves to modernization the Chinese have to develop new weapons from scratch to replace the antiquated hardware they had inherited from the mobilization economy era. In real terms the official military budget ... ... publications military training is another sphere where China is trying to catch up. Until the beginning of the 2000s the Chinese armed forces reported low indicators of average flight hours logged by airmen, naval ships seldom put to sea and large-scale land ...