In line with the budget, the National Audit Office released the 2022 audit report: Central government deficit of 2650 billion yuan, violation of discipline | Audit | Report
This morning, the National Audit Office was commissioned by the State Council to report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the audit of the execution of the central budget and other fiscal revenues and expenditures for the year 2022. What is the result of the annual "economic examination"?
The report shows that in 2022, the total revenue of the central general public budget was 10755.214 billion yuan, the total expenditure was 13405.214 billion yuan, and the deficit was 2650 billion yuan, which was in line with the budget.
The National Development and Reform Commission manages and allocates 640 billion yuan of central government investment, of which 146.75 billion yuan is allocated for central level expenditures and 493.25 billion yuan is transferred to local governments, mainly invested in areas such as food security, energy security, and industrial and supply chain security.
In terms of central departmental budget execution, in 2022, 41 key audited departments and 188 affiliated units received a fiscal budget allocation of 228.559 billion yuan, and various problematic amounts of 10.985 billion yuan were found. The audit results showed that the overall budget execution at the department level was relatively standardized, but the affiliated units still had frequent problems. There are problems of illegally profiting, charging fees, or transferring and distributing funds by utilizing departmental powers or industry resources, with a total amount of 619 million yuan.
Audit found issues such as unemployment benefits being eroded
The audit report also specifically released the audit results on livelihood issues, focusing on promoting employment, housing rental, compulsory education in urban and rural areas, and rural revitalization, which are widely concerned by society.
In terms of auditing funds for promoting employment, the National Audit Office focused on auditing 24 provinces and cities and 83 regions of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and found that stable employment subsidies were detained, intercepted, and fraudulently obtained by labor dispatch companies. In addition, there were also instances of local vocational skills training fraud; And issues such as the erosion of unemployment benefits.
In terms of auditing housing rental funds, it was found that there were violations in the use of public rental housing as collateral for financing, involving an amount of 15.75 billion yuan.
The National Audit Office also conducted an audit of the subsidy funds for compulsory education in urban and rural areas, and found that education departments in 7 provinces and 45 schools illegally collected sponsorship funds of 1.005 billion yuan. 308 schools in 4 provinces illegally collected make-up fees and forced students to purchase computers, totaling 91.312 million yuan. The actual controllers of 10 private schools in 7 provinces transferred 942 million yuan of school funds through illegal dividends, related party transactions, and other means;
In terms of rural revitalization, some projects have encountered problems such as operating losses, low survival rates of farming and animal husbandry, and idle and abandoned facilities, involving assistance funds of 7.172 billion yuan.
Transferring over 300 clues to major disciplinary and illegal issues
In recent years, the National Audit Office has promoted full coverage of auditing, aiming to ensure that there is no omission or exception in the supervisory power of all localities, departments, and units that manage and use public funds, state-owned assets, and state-owned resources, forming a normalized and dynamic deterrent. The audit of state-owned asset management has become a key content in the audit report.
When auditing the accounts of 33 central enterprises, the Audit Office found that some of them still have chaotic asset management, including chaotic physical asset management, illegal leasing and lending of asset funds, and illegal operations.
25 financial institutions have violated regulations in carrying out deposit and loan, wealth management, trust, insurance and other businesses, among which bank deposit and loan business violations are still relatively high.
In addition, there are also issues that affect the security of state-owned assets, such as insufficient intensive and efficient allocation and utilization of administrative assets, and unresolved ecological and environmental risks.
The audit report shows that since May 2022, more than 300 major disciplinary and illegal issues have been discovered and transferred, involving more than 1800 people.
The major disciplinary and illegal issues discovered during the audit will be handed over to relevant departments for further investigation and punishment in accordance with discipline and law, and relevant localities, departments, and units will implement rectification measures. The Audit Office will follow up and supervise, and announce the comprehensive rectification situation before the end of this year.
