China's top legislature to strengthen supervision over govt budgets

BEIJING - The top legislature of China said it will strengthen oversight over government budgets and final accounts, according to its annual work report released Wednesday.

"We will carefully hear and deliberate reports from the State Council on the central government's final accounts for 2015," the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee said in the report, which will soon be delivered by its Chairman Zhang Dejiang.

The auditing of the performance of the central government budgets and other items of revenue and expenditure in 2015, as well as the implementation of 2015 government budgets, will also be carefully heard and deliberated, it added.

The NPC Standing Committee will conduct surveys on the implementation of its decisions on strengthening oversight over economic work and intensifying inspection of and oversight over the central government budgets, the report said.