新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/03/06（在线收听）

2018中国国防支出增长8.1%惹国家惴惴不安

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Suyi

Coming up：

--China pledges to nurture a world-class business environment

--China is set to increase defense budget by 8.1 percent

--Xi Jinping says China's party system is a great contribution to political civilization

For more on this, CRI's Suyi joined on the line by Zhu Feng,Executive Director of Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies；LIN Shaowen, senior political commentator of CRI；Wang Dan, analyst of Economist Intelligence Unit；Zhao Yang earlier spoke with Yao Shujie, ChuengKong professor of Economics,Chongqing university and Liu Baocheng, professor at University of International Business and Economics