China abandons growth target, lowers defence budget rise for 2020 amid pandemic

In a draft budget report submitted to the NPC, the government also set a 6.6 percent growth rate for its defence budget, lower than the 7.5 percent rise in 2019, an outlay that’s closely followed globally.

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