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City spend on travel, vehicles and receptions down 30%
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CITY government spent 700 million yuan (US$112.6 million) on overseas travel, official vehicles and receptions last year — down 30 percent on 2013, the Shanghai Auditing Bureau announced yesterday.
This figure for Shanghai government and its bodies was 232 million yuan under its budget for the year, added the bureau.
Expenditure in 2013 was 1.05 billion yuan.
This fall is attributed to the Chinese government’s frugality campaign.
Last year, Shanghai government spent 157 million yuan on overseas travel, 400 million yuan on buying and maintaining official vehicles and 150 million yuan for official receptions, according to the audit.
Most of the underspend came in cutbacks in receptions — 147 million yuan less than budgeted.
Spending on vehicles came in at 49 million yuan under what had been budgeted, while overseas travels costs were 36 million yuan less that allocated for 2014.
Tian Chunhua, director of the bureau, told the local legislative body that the lower expenditure is mainly down to central government’s ongoing frugality campaign.
China’s Ministry of Finance has announced the central government budgets for overseas traveling, official vehicles and receptions will be reduced by 11.7 percent this year.
Tian said last year’s figure could have been even more under-budget.
“Some government bodies were still found spending extra money on official vehicle maintenance without permission, as well as receptions,” he said, without giving further details.
The city government’s fiscal expenditure rose 8.9 percent on year to 25.35 billion yuan in the first half of 2015 — 45 percent of the budget for the whole year, Song Yijia, director with the Shanghai Finance Bureau told lawmakers at the briefing.
Most cash went on scientific innovation, industry structural adjustment, social management and improving living conditions while environmental protection campaigns also saw increased spend, lawmakers heard.
Fiscal revenue for the first six months of 2015 was 32.13 billion yuan, up 13 percent year on year.
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