The State Auditing Administration is considering publishing all audit reports
of future projects, deputy auditor-general Linghu An revealed when receiving an
interview by Hong Kong-based Wen Wai Po, saying both Chinese premiers Zhu Rongji
and Wen Jiabao pay high attention to auditing work, who never miss any important
information or material in this regard and give instructions constantly.
Besides, they never delete or change any audit report or avoid important
parts, but stand for thorough investigations and open results. Over the report
concerning land corruption by the Administration and the Ministry of Land and
Resources, for example, Premier Wen Jiabao once gave seven or eight instructions
in succession. Vice premier Zeng Peiyan then hold two tele-conferences to study
solutions.
Under premiers' instructions, the Administration is considering its result
publishing system to make known reports of all audited projects in future.
This big reform needs to be done step by step, Linghu An said, adding the
Administration's current annual report to NPC is open to the public. Then
auditing results of some particular projects will be published, such as the use
of SARS fund published last year.
All departments with central funds are under auditAccording to Zhang Qiuxia,
director of the Department of Government and Non-Profit Agencies Audit under the
Administration, the Department is now responsible for auditing revenues and
expenditures of government departments and non-profit agencies, including
institutions under the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference, Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuratorate,
Armed Police, party and government organizations and social bodies which receive
central budgetary appropriations or turn over revenues to central financial
departments. It shall perform audits of revenues and expenditures of departments
under the State Council and their direct subordinate undertakings and Beijing
subordinate units. It shall also organize local audit institutions to conduct
audit of the accountability of party and government leaders during their terms
of office. It shall carry out special audits and audit investigation and
instruct local audit institutions in the performance of government and
non-profit agencies audit.
That is to say, all central departments and institutions which receive
central budgetary appropriations are covered by our auditing work, Zhang told
reporter.
Audit over NPC and CPPCC will be carried out gradually and we are considering
our work for the latter half of the year, Zhang said.
Audit upon ministries is a regular work and seven of them were mentioned in
this year's report, but actually a much larger number of ministries were
covered. In the past few years we audited annually more than 60 departments
under the State Council, Zhang said.