Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on Monday called on the country's
auditing department to improve its work in order to build a clean
government and ensure sustained and healthy economic development.
Addressing leading officials of the Auditing Administration of the
People's Republic of China, the premier said that the department
has done a good job in auditing and supervising government
departments and institutions over the past five years.
The auditing work has helped to maintain order in the economy
through detecting and curbing fraudulent activities such as
accounting frauds.
In
his speech to department officials in the course of his inspection
tour, the premier said that auditing departments had uncovered and
handled a number of major cases, contributing to the country's
fight against corruption and its efforts to build a clean
government, said the premier.
He
called on the administration to improve its performance in the
years to come and gave priority to the auditing of the execution of
fiscal budget to ensure that fiscal expenditures and reported
income are accurate and legal.
Zhu called for the improved auditing of taxation and finance
departments and of leading state-owned enterprises, in order to
increase revenue, safeguard financial security and prevent the loss
of state assets.
(Xinhua News Agency January 14, 2003)