China News Service, Beijing, September 24 (Xie Yanbing and Liang Xiaohui) The Budget Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress recently stated that in the past six years, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has promoted a total of 2 trillion yuan in rectification of audit problems and 21,300 accountability. people.

  A few days ago, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress held a collective interview on "strengthening the construction of the people's congress system and developing socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics."

  Speaking of “after-the-fact” supervision, final account review and audit detection of problems rectification supervision, Diao Yijun, Director of the Office of the Budget Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress said that in the past six years, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has promoted the cumulative amount of rectification of problems found in audits to 2 One trillion yuan, 18,000 items of various rules and regulations have been improved, and 21,300 people have been accountable.

Diao Yijun, director of the Office of the Budget Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, answered reporters' questions.

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  In response to the issue of budget review and supervision, Diao Yijun said that in recent years, in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee’s reform and deployment, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has focused on the expansion and reform of expenditure budgets and policies for budget review and supervision of the National People’s Congress. Supervision.

According to Diao Yijun, specifically: First, strengthen the "prior" review and move the budget review threshold forward.

The second is to focus on "in-the-work" supervision and do a good job in the "process" supervision of budget implementation.

The third is to implement “after-the-fact” supervision, and do a good job in final accounts review and auditing to rectify and supervise problems found in audits.

  Diao Yijun said that the final account review focuses on budget performance, and continues to promote the Ministry of Finance to increase the performance evaluation reports of key projects submitted for review by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and expand the scope of performance review.

From 2016 to 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress reviewed the performance evaluation reports of key projects submitted by the State Council from 5 to 25, and the amount of funds involved increased from 50 billion yuan to 1.7 trillion yuan.

From 2015 to 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress carried out follow-up supervision on 27 outstanding issues in central infrastructure investment, ecological and environmental protection, local government debt, tax reduction and fee reduction, involving 22 central departments.

  “Through follow-up, supervision and auditing, we found out the situation of rectification of problems, and the people's congress budget review and supervision and audit supervision formed a joint force, which played an important role in promoting the establishment and improvement of a long-term mechanism for rectification and reform.” (End)