Zhang Xiaogang said that in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations such as the National Defense Law and the Budget Law, the Chinese government includes the defense expenditure budget in the draft government budget every year, and after being reviewed and approved by the people's congress, it manages and uses it in accordance with the law, and publishes the total defense expenditure budget to the public.
He said that consolidating national defense and strengthening the army is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization. Comprehensively consider the overall needs of national security and development, ensure that the modernization process of national defense and the army is compatible with the process of national modernization, comprehensively improve the strategic ability to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests, and achieve the centennial goal of the founding of the army as scheduled, the national general public budget will arrange national defense expenditure of 1.94 trillion yuan in 2026, an increase of 6.9% over the previous year's implementation, of which the central government will spend 1.91 trillion yuan, an increase of 7% over the previous year's implementation.
Zhang Xiaogang introduced that the increased defense expenditure is mainly used in the following aspects: First, in accordance with the new "three-step" strategy of national defense and military modernization, promote the integrated development of mechanization, informatization and intelligence, and improve the strategic ability to defend national sovereignty, security, and develop interests.
The second is to optimize the joint combat system, promote the large-scale, actual combat, and systematic development of new domains and new quality combat forces, upgrade and transform traditional combat forces, and strengthen the construction of advanced combat effectiveness.
The third is to step up the development of advanced weapons and equipment and national defense science and technology innovation, and accelerate the construction of modern logistics.
Fourth, continue to deepen political training, solidly promote actual combat military training, optimize military human resources policies and systems, improve the level of military academies and academies, and create a phalanx of high-quality and professional new military talents.
"The army will promote the reform of military budget management, do a good job in the dynamic balance of supply and demand of military spending, strengthen the control and performance evaluation of the whole chain of military expenditure use, and use every penny on the blade." Zhang Xiaogang said. (End)
