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== Budget ==
{{Main|Military budget of China}}
China's official military budget for 2025 was at 1.78 trillion yuan (US$246 billion), which is an increase of 7.2% over the last year.<ref name=":25">{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Laurie |last2=Torode |first2=Greg |date=5 March 2025 |title=China maintains defence spending increase at 7.2% amid roiling geopolitical tensions |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-maintains-defence-spending-increase-72-2025-03-05/ |access-date=5 March 2025 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> The [[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] (SIPRI) estimated that China's military expenditure was US$314&nbsp;billion in 2024, the second-largest in the world after the United States and accounting for [[List of countries by military expenditures|12 percent of the world's defence expenditures]].'''''<ref name="SIPRI-2020"/>'''''[[File:Military Expenditures by Country 2019.svg|500px|thumb|center|A pie chart showing global [[List of countries by military expenditures|military expenditures]] by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI]]
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