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Note: The total defense budgets for FY2002 and FY2004 were not disclosed, and there is a discrepancy when the disclosed growth rates and amounts of increase is applied to the initial budgets of FY2001 and FY2003. This graph uses 168.4 billion yuan and 210 billion yuan for FY2002 and FY2004, respectively. These are calculated on the assumption that the disclosed growth rates and amounts of increase are based on the actual defense expenditures for FY2001 and FY2003.
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Beijing Military Region (Headquarters: Beijing) Lanzhou Military Region (Headquarters: Lanzhou)
Nanjing Military Region (Headquarters: Nanjing) South Sea Fleet (Headquarters: Zhanjiang)
Fleet headquarters Group Army (Army) headquarters Airborne Corps (Air Force) headquarters
Note: Army and Air Force Military Regions are identical. A Group Army consists of several divisions and brigades and has tens of thousands of personnel.
Taiwan (Reference)
Approx. 290,000 troops Approx. 200,000 troops M-60, M-48A/H and others Approx. 1,830 vehicles Approx. 330 vessels/ 207,000 tons Approx. 30 vessels 4 vessels Approx. 15,000 troops Approx. 530 aircraft Mirage 200057 F-16146 F-CK-1 (IDF) 128 (Fourth-generation fighters 331 aircraft) Approx. 23 million 1 year
Warships Maritime forces Destroyers & frigates Submarines Marines Combat aircraft Air forces Modern fighters aircraft
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Canada
Europe
Iran
Mongolia China
2,500km 2,800km
The Philippines
4,750km
Indonesia
8,000km
2,150 2,500km
12,000km 13,000km 14,000km
Maximum range of DF-21, DF-21A /B Maximum range of DF-3, DF-3A Maximum range of DF-4 Maximum range of DF-31, DF-31A
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A Chinese early warning aircraft flying over the East China Sea
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Guam
October 2008 Four vessels including a Sovremenny-class destroyer sailed through the Tsugaru Strait (the first identied passage by Chinese surface combat ships) before circling Japan
Okinotori Island
Tokyo
Okinawa
Beijing
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