The Budget Openness Of Provincial Government And The Construction Of Transparent Government

The budget openness is not only the inevitable requirement of building a transparent government, but also conducive to promoting the construction of responsible, legal and honest government. The budget openness starts late in our country. The Secrects Act had deemed the public budget as state confidential for a long time. So the public is not informed of the budget in the past. In May1,2008,"the decree of government information openess" promulgate formally opened the Chinese Budget public road. It clearly defines that the report of government budget and final accounts should be openness to the bublic.Compared with the past, although our state has made significant progres on the openess of public budget in recent years, there are still many problems. The legal construction of budget public has lots of defects. Even though "the decree of government information openess" provides the budget disclosure, the act doesn’t embody the details of budget openness. Besides, some provisions in the relevant laws and regulation such as the Budget Law and the Secrects Act even hinder the disclosure of public budget in reality. What’s more, many governments fear that the budget public will make them lose the vested interests. As a result, their enthusiasm to advance the budget public is very low. Compared with Western countries, the transparency of public beget is very low in our state. Because of the short-time of budget approval and the vacancy of inquiry right and amendment right, China’s National People’s Congress lacks substantial constraint on the public budget.The research about the provincial budget openess is based on the information from the government website. In addition to taking Zhejiang Province as a case study, the research also make compared analysis among Zhejiang, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong. Inspecting the budget openess of this four provincial government, the article examines the problem existing in the practice of budget public. This research is focused on the budget transparency of the provincial government. In accordance with the standards of the international budget transparency, the research comments the transparency of the provincial government from the transparency of budgeting, the transparency of budget approval, the transparency of budget execution and the transparency of budget audit. Drawing experience of budget openness from the developed country, the research puts forward some suggestions to push the publicize budget forward on perverting the legal construction of budget openness, strengthen the budget transparency and establishment some related institution of budget openness.