China's legislature is to discuss an audit report on
implementation of central budget of 2006 at a session beginning on
June 24.
The 28th session of the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress (NPC) will convene from June 24 to 29, the
chairman and vice-chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee
decided at a meeting on Monday.
The session will consider the report on the 2006 final accounts
and a report on the execution of 2006 central budget.
Other issues on the agenda are a draft amendment to the Civil
Procedural Law, a draft amendment to law on conserving energy and a
draft amendment to law on legal practice.
NPC Standing Committee members will discuss draft laws on labor
contracts, anti-monopoly, emergency response and employment
promotion and the report of the implementation of Compulsory
Education Law.
The Treaty between China and New Zealand on Mutual Legal
Assistance in Criminal Matters and the China-Tajikistan
Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation will also
submitted to the meeting for deliberation.
China's chief auditor Li Jinhua, dubbed the "iron auditor", has for
several years exposed budgetary misappropriation by government
departments in his annual report.
The audit report on implementation of the central budget of 2005
which was made in June 2006 reported that 48 central government
departments had misappropriated 5.51 billion yuan (US$723 million)
from the central budget in 2005 by hiding revenues, fabricating
expenditure or lying about the number of subordinate units.
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(Xinhua News Agency June 19, 2007)