Auditing key to party’s self-reform, says Xi

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, emphasized on Tuesday that auditing plays a unique role in promoting the party’s own reforms, requiring auditing work to serve the overall development of the party and the country.

Xi Jinping, who is China’s president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the above remarks while presiding over the first meeting of the Central Audit Committee of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is the head of the committee.

He emphasized that auditing shoulders an important mission in the new journey of strengthening the country and realizing national rejuvenation.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the audit work should closely focus on the responsibilities of the main body of economic supervision, and better play its unique role in promoting the party’s own reform.

Li Qiang, Premier of the State Council, and Li Xi, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection attended the meeting. They are both deputy directors of the Central Audit Committee.

The meeting heard the report of the Commission for Discipline Inspection on the implementation of the central budget and other financial expenditures in 2022, as well as the report on promoting the high-quality development of audit work in the new era. issued a statement after the meeting.

Participants emphasized that auditing is an important part of the party and state’s supervision system, and it is of great significance to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.

Participants pointed out that the overall requirement for audit work in the new era is to focus on building a centralized, unified, authoritative and efficient audit system to better play the role of supervision.

To carry out audit work, there must be no omissions or exceptions to the fields, departments and organizations that manage and use public funds, state-owned assets and state-owned resources, and form a normalized and dynamic deterrent. .

Delegates at the meeting requested that the audit work should be intensified this year. They emphasized that it is necessary to promote the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making and deployment around high-quality development, and strengthen supervision of the implementation of major projects, major strategies, and major measures.

The delegates also requested that the supervision of the implementation of relevant policies and measures such as stabilizing growth, stabilizing employment, stabilizing prices, using fiscal funds, stabilizing the economy, developing the real economy, and protecting people’s livelihood be strengthened.

While emphasizing overall development and security, they called for close attention to key areas such as local government debt, finance, real estate, food and energy supply, and resolutely guarded against systemic risks.