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Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming described China's defensive national defense policy
People's daily online, London, February 9 (Xinhua Li Wenyun) China United Kingdom Ambassador Liu Xiaoming said in United Kingdom the Royal Institute of International Affairs entitled "China is Asia's peace and stability" speech, comprehensively addresses around Asia and China's foreign policy. In response to audience questions, Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador for what I thought of China's military growth problem, go into the details of China's national defense policy is defensive in nature and peaceful nature, he said, first of all, China's vast land area of 9.6 million square kilometers, is the United Kingdom 40 times, is Japan 25 times, while the military are the only British and Japanese military twice. China has 14 land neighbors, 8 sea neighbours, while in Britain, Japan's neighbours have a few? China had 22,000 km land border line, 32,000 kilometres of coastline. Chinese army shoulder the difficult task in maintaining national security.
Second, the growth of China's military power commensurate with the level of China's economic and social development and national defense needs. For more than 30 years China's economy has maintained an average annual double-digit growth in defense budget share of GDP has fallen. At the same time, China's per capita military spending is the lowest among major powers, only the United States of one-twenty second, United Kingdom one-Nineth, Japan one-fifth. From the perspective of soldiers per capita military spending levels, it accounted for United States one-tenth, Japan one-fifth. Contrast can be seen by the above figures, China's military growth is modest.
Third, China's external environment more complex and growing overseas interests. More and more of China's trading partners is higher than the United States as the world's largest trading nation, to sea lane security concerns continue to rise. China not only attaches importance to and actively participated in United Nations peacekeeping operations, on the Somali coast providing naval escorts to Chinese and multinational commercial vessels.
IV, China's increasing military transparency. China publicly released defense white paper every two years, a comprehensive introduction to China's national defense policy and army building. In addition, China's defense budget annually submitted to the national people's Congress for deliberation, and the public. Suggest those who questioned China's military transparency to read these reports.
V, China's nuclear strategy is the most transparent. China is the only nuclear Powers commit themselves to no first use of nuclear weapons, no nuclear weapons against non?nuclear States of the country.
VI, China's adherence to the path of peaceful development, and against BA, which have clear written Constitution. China never occupy one inch of land, nor any military bases abroad. China's national defense policy is entirely defensive in nature, was peaceful.
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February 10, 2014 People's daily online
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人民网伦敦2月9日电 (记者 李文云) 中国驻英国大使刘晓明日前在英国皇家国际问题研究所发表题为“中国是亚洲的和平稳定力量”的演讲，全面阐述中国的亚洲和周边外交政策。在回答听众提问时，刘晓明大使针对如何看待中国军费增长的问题，深入阐述了中国国防政策的防御性质与和平性质，他说， 第一，中国国土辽阔，国土面积达960万平方公里，是英国40倍，是日本的25倍，而军费仅分别是英、日两国军费的两倍。中国有14个陆地邻国，8个海上邻国，而英、日的邻国有几个？中国有22000公里陆地边界线，32000公里海岸线。中国军队在维护国家安全方面肩负艰巨任务。
第二，中国军力增长与中国经济社会发展水平和国防需要相适应。30多年来中国经济保持年均两位数的增长，而国防预算占国内生产总值的比重逐年下降。同时，中国人均军费支出在大国中是最低的，仅占美国的1/22，英国的1/9，日本的1/5。而从军人人均军费水平看，中国仅占美国的1/10，日本的1/5。通过上述数字对比可以看出，中国军费增长是适度的。
第三，中国的外部环境更加复杂，海外利益不断增长。中国贸易伙伴越来越多，已超越美国成为全球最大的贸易国，对海上通道安全的关切不断上升。中国不仅重视并积极参与联合国维和行动，还在索马里海域向中国和多国商业船只提供海军护航。
第四，中国军事透明度不断提高。中国每两年公开发布国防白皮书，全面系统介绍中国国防政策和国防建设。此外，中国的国防预算每年提交全国人民代表大会进行审议，并公诸于世。建议那些质疑中国军事透明度的人好好读一读这些报告。
第五，中国的核战略是最透明的。中国是核大国中唯一承诺不首先使用核武器、不对无核国家使用核武器的国家。
第六，中国坚持走和平发展道路，反对霸主义，这已明确写入中国宪法。中国从未占领他国一寸土地，在海外也没有任何军事基地。中国国防政策完全是防御性的，是和平的。
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2014年02月10日00:16
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