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cover expenditure budgets and policies and enhancing oversight over the
management of state-owned assets are two important tasks that the CPC Central

Committee has entrusted to people’s congresses. In line with the requirement to
ensure exhaustive review and exercise oversight at all stages, the Standing
Committee formulated guidelines for further strengthening oversight by the
standing committees of people’s congresses at all levels on the rectification of
prominent problems discovered through audit so as to promote the thorough
implementation of the CPC Central Committee’s decisions and plans in the
compilation and execution of budgets. Focusing on key issues such as the
implementation of fiscal policies, the execution of departmental budgets, the

availability of transfer payments, the issuance and use of local government bonds,
the enforcement of policies and measures for pollution prevention and control, and
the allocation of government funds, we conducted follow-up oversight by
organizing 25 research projects, hearing 35 summary reports, holding 4 special
deliberation meetings, and carrying out inspection over 9 special funds. We thus
stepped up inspection and oversight on how efficiently government funds are used

and how effectively policies are implemented. We pushed local people’s
congresses to implement reform measures to expand the focus of their budget
review and oversight to cover expenditure budgets and policies, with all provinces,
autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government
formulating guidelines on the implementation of these measures. In line with the
goal of conducting comprehensive, standardized, open, transparent, and effective
oversight, we formulated a five-year plan for overseeing the management of
state-owned assets, and deliberated a comprehensive report on the management of

state-owned assets and a special report on the management of state-owned assets
of government administrative offices and public institutions in 2018, with a view to
enhancing the depth, breadth, quality, and efficiency of oversight on the
management of state-owned assets. We also encouraged local governments to
extend the system for reporting on the management of state-owned assets to cities
with subsidiary districts and autonomous prefectures.

We took solid steps to conduct effective oversight on special topics. We heard

and deliberated 11 work reports by the State Council regarding special topics,
including management of physicians and implementation of the Practicing
Physicians Law, reform and development of preschool education, promotion of
social assistance, development of rural industries, reform of the rural collective
property rights system, development of cultural industries, acceleration of the

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