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

... The slowest growth of the military budget in recent years was in 2010, a mere 7.5%. China’s military budget rate of growth hit double digits in the second half of... ... manufacture of heavy weaponry, such as tanks, artillery systems, armoured vehicles and war planes in China fell on the early 1970s when the relations with the USSR deteriorated... ... 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...