Budgetary Supervision In China: An Institutional Perspective Of Provincial People's Congress

by Shujian Zhang

Overview

This book studies the problems of budgetary supervision system of China's provincial People's Congress, and analyzes their causes and provides the solutions.The author explores the topic from the perspective of the provincial People's Congress, which is at the intermediate level in the Chinese political hierarchy, as the corresponding level of provincial government possesses local legislature power. With further normalization of the central government management, local governance will be critical to political development in the futures. Improvement of the budgetary supervision system of the provincial People's Congress will promote legal construction of the local government, which will necessarily affect the game of standardization of the powers of the government and civil rights.The book also analyzes the power of amendment of draft budget and legal construction of the disclosure of budget information, especially investigating the provincial power structure during the process of budgetary supervision and uncovering the problems and difficulties in the budgetary supervision system in China.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938134562
Publisher:	World Century Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	02/24/2015
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

About the Author ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 General Theory of Budgetary Supervision of the People's Congress 1

Section 1 Theoretical Analysis of Budgetary Supervision 3

1 Theoretical Basis for Budgetary Supervision 3

2 Broad Meaning of Budgetary Supervision 12

3 The Nature and Characteristics of the Power of Budgetary Supervision 17

Section 2 Constitutional Significance of Budgetary Supervision 21

1 Democratization of Budget and Supervision of Government Authority 21

2 Legislation of Budget and Realization of Civil Rights 25

Section 3 The Principle of Budgetary Supervision 32

1 The Principle of Democratic Supervision 33

2 The Principles of Supervision in Accordance with the Laws 35

3 The Policy-Oriented Principle 38

Chapter 2 Overview of the System of Budgetary Supervision of Provincial People's Congress 41

Section 1 Changes of the Budgetary Supervision System of Provincial People's Congress 41

1 The Background of Changes of the System 41

2 Formation of the Basic Legal Framework 42

3 Basis of Systematic Construction 44

Section 2 Origins of the Budgetary Supervision System of Provincial People's Congress 46

1 The Constitution and Laws 46

2 Administrative Laws and Regulations 50

3 Local Laws and Regulations 52

4 Departmental Rules and Regulations 62

Section 3 Main Contents and Procedures of Budgetary Supervision of Provincial People's Congress 63

1 Supervision in the Process of Coordination of Making Budget 63

2 Supervision in Daily Implementation of Budget 64

3 Supervision over Budget Adjustment 65

Chapter 3 Problems in the Process of Budgetary Supervision of Provincial People's Congress 69

Section 1 Deficiencies in the Power of Budgetary Supervision 69

1 The Power of Supervision without Exalted Constitutional Position 69

2 Narrow Space for the Operation of System 71

3 Imperfect Organization of the People's Congress System 75

Section 2 Insufficient Transparency of Budget Information 77

1 Specific Results and Causes 77

2 The Consequences and Influences 81

Section 3 Imperfect Procedure of Budgetary Supervision 82

1 Unreasonable Design of the Procedures 82

2 Limited Latitude for Procedural Operation 84

Section 4 Case Studies: Shanghai, Gansu and Guangdong Provinces 85

1 Simplification of the Procedure of Examination of Draft Budget 85

2 Inability to Veto the Use of Specific Budgetary Funds 87

3 Vacuum in Supervision in the Process of Budgetary Implementation 88

Chapter 4 The First Part of System Improvement: Rational Allocation of the Power of Budgetary supervision 93

Section 1 The Power of Supervision in Budgetary ecision-Making 93

1 Balance between the Powers of Budgetary Decision-Making 93

2 Standardization of the Power of Budgetary Decision-Making 94

3 Coordination between the People's Congress, the Party Committee, and the Government 98

Section 2 Power of Supervision in the Process of Making Budget 101

1 Supervision over Amendment to the Draft Budget 101

2 Strengthening the Power of Amending the Draft Budget in the Stage of Preliminary Examination 104

Section 3 Sound Restrictions on the Power of Budgetary Supervision of the People's Congress 111

1 To Avoid a Trend of Opportunism of the Power of Budgetary Supervision of the People's Congress 111

2 Rational Allocation of the Power of Budgetary Supervision of the People's Congress in the Constitutional Framework 112

Chapter 5 The Second Part of System Improvement: Strengthening Budget Information Disclosure 115

Section 1 Improvement of the Budget Information Disclosure System 115

1 Legal Guarantee of Budget Information Disclosure 115

2 The Requirements of Budget Information Disclosure 117

3 Design in System of Budget Information Disclosure 121

Section 2 Ensuring Citizens' Right to Know on Budget Information 131

1 Legalization of Citizens' Right to Know on Budget Information 131

2 Approaches of Protecting Citizens' Right to Know on Budget Information 135

Chapter 6 The Third Part of System Improvement: Improvement of Budgetary Supervision Procedure 137

Section 1 Proposal for Strengthening Supervision System in the Whole Process 138

1 To Strengthen Legislative for Involvement of the People's Congress in Budgetary Process 138

2 To Improve the Procedures of Supervision Over Performance in Budgetary Process 139

3 To Promote the System of Civil Participation and Supervision 142

Section 2 Improvement of the Supervision Procedure in the Stage of Budgetary Compilation 144

1 Strengthen the Supervision in Making Decision in Budget at the Provincial Level 144

2 Strengthen the Unification of the Budgetary Powers 148

3 Standardization and Externalization of Procedural Design in the Stage of Budgetary Compilation 155

Section 3 Avoid Blank Spot of Supervision in the Process of Budgetary Implementation 158

1 Carry Out Real Audit and Supervision 158

2 Improve Real-Time Supervision 161

Conclusion 165

Bibliography 173