Premier Wen Jiabao and Wu Guanzheng, Secretary of the Central Commission
for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party of China, have urged
the improvement of economic audit work to boost the building of a clean
government.
"Economic audit work is of great importance to building a clean government
and promoting the government to act according to law," Wen said in a written
instruction to a national meeting on economic responsibility audit work, which
opened here Monday.
Wu said in his written instruction to the same meeting that audit results
will be used as important reference in evaluating and promoting cadres. Corrupt
officials uncovered by audit departments will be punished.
China has decided to expand the scope of economic audit of government
officials from the beginning of 2005. Heads of prefectures and prefecture-level
agencies will be subject to economic auditing from Jan. 1 of 2005, as were
officials of lower ranks.
From 2000 to June 2004, 3,253 officials in China were handed over to judicial
or discipline organs to face trial and punishmentafter economic auditing,
according to those at the meeting.
