Thoughts On Improving China's Participatory Budgeting

Strengthening democratic participation in the budget review process will help build an efficient,accountable and transparent government.The participatory budget has explored a new way to actively promote the orderly political participation of citizens within the framework of the system,which has opened up new channels for citizens to participate freely,extensively,directly and truly in the decision-making,management and supervision of public affairs.The change of government's participation budget from strengthening leadership to strengthening governance capability is of great practical and long-term significance to promote the optimal allocation of financial resources,strengthen the management of budget and expenditure and promote democratic governance at the grass-roots level.On the basis of previous research on participatory budgeting,this paper makes a systematic analysis and research by consulting a lot of literature and investigating the practice of Wenling participatory budgeting.Participatory budgeting refers to citizens taking democratic talks as the main form,widely participating in the government's annual budget consultation and discussion,deputies to the NPC examine the government's budget and decide on budget amendments and adjustments to achieve substantive participation in budget review and supervision.From abroad,Brazil was the first country to implement participatory budgeting.After that,France,Italy and other countries have also accumulated a lot of experience in participatory budgeting practice.From the domestic point of view,many places have also made beneficial exploration on participatory budgeting,and formed three typical models with different characteristics,namely Wuxi,Harbin and Jiaozuo.By analyzing the basic concepts,principles and theoretical sources of participatory budgeting,this paper puts forward the conclusion that participatory budgeting is an inevitable requirement of public finance,an effective form of budget supervision and an important form of budget democracy.This paper focuses on the operation process and the main body of the participatory budget mechanism.This paper analyzes that the Party committee,government,people's congress,citizens and social organizations(NGOs)in the main body of participatory budgeting have their own place in the process of government's public budgeting and play their due role,and tries to make a logical analysis of the correlation before each body,so as to analyze the working mechanism of participatory budgeting.Taking Wenling participatory budget model as an example,this paper illustrates thelocal motivation and reform process of Wenling model from the background of its emergence.The general practice framework,practice mode and practice characteristics of Wenling are summarized.The application effect and innovative value of the "Wenling mode" are put forward.Based on the above investigation and study,this paper analyzes the development requirements,limitations and constraints of participatory budgeting,and sums up the countermeasures and suggestions to promote participatory budgeting reform,especially to promote the NPC,from four aspects: building local governance system,building institutional norms,establishing multi-supervisory system and improving budget performance management.The innovation of supervisory system,the enhancement of multi-supervisory forces and the innovation of democratic consultation carriers set higher goals and requirements for the sustainable development of participatory budgeting.