Li Zhaoxing: Budget, national defence of China, increase, 14.9% store recessive military spending in 2009

[Reporter of Russian news agency ] thanks. I am a reporter of the Russian news agency, I would like to ask you, whether you could reveal some details of the Chinese national defence expenditure budget of 2009 to us, including offering some concrete figures to us.
[Li Zhaoxing ] thanks you for proposing this question, make me have an opportunity to clarify some news not very precise that some counterparts, colleagues of yours spread on this problem.
[Li Zhaoxing ], as you know, China takes the road to peaceful development firmly, we handle affairs strictly according to " the United Nation Charter " and norms governing international relations. The military spending of this year of China increases to some extent, I can come to your one slowly in detailed conditions. If you are interested in this question, then I ask you to take pen out to remember conscientiously, because these things involve a lot of figures, clearly remember very easy light according to the impression.
[Li Zhaoxing ], we always pay attention to controlling the funds scale of the national defence, the policy developed in harmony according to national defense construction and economic construction, arrange the national defence expenditure rationally. For example saying, China's national defence budget will be 480,686 million yuan in 2009, the execution number of budget compared with that of last year increases by 62,482 million yuan, rate of increase is 14.9%, the budget of the national defence expenditure accounts for 6.3% of the national financial budget for expenditure that year, with comparing the proportion to slightly drop several years ago.
[Living benefits that the national defence budget which China increases is used mainly for raising military officers and men of 2009 of Li Zhaoxing ]. According to China's economics and society development level, national civil servant's income and living standard of urban and rural residents are improved, adjust the subsidy subsidy standard of the army correspondingly, guarantee soldiers' living standard is improved correspondingly. As you know, our Chinese tradition is that an army love the people, the people for supporting the army, the living standard of ordinary people has been improved, improvement that it should be corresponding too whether the army's living standard is?
[Li Zhaoxing ], in addition, we need to increase the input in military information construction, meet the needs of military change, the appropriate construction funds which will increase equipping and auxiliary facility, improve the defence ability of the army under the information-based condition. Strengthen the army, do rescue and relief work, the anti-terrorism links the emergency ability construction that is not the war military operation steadily, improve the army to reply many kind and threaten safely, the ability to finish military task of the diversification, support and stay the infrastructure of disaster-stricken army of earthquake-stricken area of Wenchuan of Sichuan and resume rebuilding.
[Li Zhaoxing ], as you know, the population of China exceeds 1,300 million, the area of China is not as large as your Russia, but there is about 9,600,000 sq. km., we have administration sea area of more than 3 million sq. km.. In view of these factors, the national defence of China is put into countries all over the world, should say it is relatively lower. It is about 1.4% that the national defence expenses of China accounts for the proportion of total amount of gross domestic product, and U.S.A. probably exceeds 4%, some countries such as Britain, France are both above 2%. China's limited military strength is for safeguarding state sovereignty and territorial integrity, will not threaten any country.
[Li Zhaoxing ] Chinese Government implements the strict financial allocations system to the national defence expenditure according to budget law and the National Defense Law, the annual national defence expenditure budgets all include in the national budget document, is examined and sanctioned by National People's Congress. Since 2007, Chinese Government participates in the transparent system of military spending of the United Nations formally, refer expenses of military expenditure report to the United Nations every year, China store what is called " recessive military spending " in either Question.