China's Military Spending

China says it plans to increase military spending by nearly 18% this year, to 417.8bn yuan $59bn; £30bn).

The figure was revealed ahead of China's annual parliamentary session, which begins on Wednesday.

Just before the announcement, the US released a report criticising China's military spending, and voicing concern over advances in space and cyberspace.

China rejected the Pentagon report as a "serious distortion of facts" that could harm its relations with the US.

"It breaks international norms... We do not pose a threat to any country. The US should drop its Cold War mentality," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

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China says it will increase their military spending by more than 18 percent this year. The U.S. denounced this new spending policy and China responded by saying that the U.S should drop their Cold War mentality. China says the spending will primarily go to the national defense funds but even so, this is a scary thought for the U.S.

China sends troops to diaster hit areas

Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered all of the country's military forces to continue to support the reconstruction work in disaster-hit areas.

Armed forces should actively participate in the reconstruction of disaster-hit areas to help locals get their lives back to normal, according to a circular jointly issued by the General Staff Headquarters and the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

They should help local government to provide enough food, clothing, shelter and transport to victims, it said. Local troops that were affected by the snow disaster should be helped as well in their own reconstructions.

Nanjing Military Command has sent 10,000 soldiers to the eastern Jiangxi Province to carry out power system maintenance and reconstruction.

Chengdu Military Command has sent 5,000 soldiers and officers, 100 trucks and three helicopters to repair and rebuild power systems and restore transport in the southwestern Guizhou Province.

The Second Artillery Corps currently has 300 electronic engineers repairing the transmission line in the central Hunan Province.

By Feb. 11, China's military had sent 6.43 million soldiers and officers and 18.69 million militia to help in the reconstruction.

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This article is very significant to China because as you could see by the volume of people that China sent to the diaster areas, the government said they sent 6.43 millon troops to the hit areas to help clean up and bebuild all that has been lost, this shows that china responds quickly to major diasters going on inside China.

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