Congress Deputies Step up Government Supervision

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Congress Deputies Step up Government Supervision

Deputies to the on-going first meeting of the Tenth Guangdong Provincial People's Congress have been given a new insight into the workings of the provincial government.

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Deputies to the on-going first meeting of the Tenth Guangdong Provincial People's Congress have been given a new insight into the workings of the provincial government.

The revelations came in a blue-covered, three-centimeter-thick financial budget volume given to each deputies.

Every volume included the financial budgets submitted from 102 departments of the provincial government, covering a total 22 billion yuan -- and awaiting discussion.

Wang Zehua, a deputy to the eighth, ninth and tenth provincial people's congresses of south China's Guangdong province, told Xinhua that the financial budget of the provincial government had become more transparent.

He remembered that it was only two years ago that the provincial government for the first time submitted a financial budget program. At that time, the financial budget program only consisted of several pages and was submitted by merely seven sectors of the provincial government. In 2002, the financial budget program included 27 sectors of the government.

However, this year the financial budget program included the provincial government's 102 different sectors and expenditure of 22 billion yuan. "It is indeed big progress," Wang said.

Not only was the budget thicker, but the number of bills submitted by deputies also grew.

More than 780 deputies from the province's 124 counties and cities submitted a total of 276 bills, 45 more than last congress. According to congress staff, most of the bills were concerned with agricultural problems and farmer's difficulties.

Deputy Hong Songzhou said the increasing number of bills demonstrated that the judgment and the enthusiasm of deputies wereevolving.

Thanks to their keen and capable work, the congress had intensified the supervision of the provincial government, the provincial higher people's court and the provincial people's procuratorate.

According to the work report issued by Zhang Guoying, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, during the past five years, the congress evaluated the performanceof 28 directors of provincial government departments, four vice-presidents of the provincial higher people's court and four deputyprocurator-generals.

During the congress, deputies extended the heated discussion ofsome traditional topics, including the fight against corruption, social security, balanced regional economic developments and the overall Pearl River Delta economic development program, and some hot issues, such as the future of the country's private enterprises, economic cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao and local legal system improvements.

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