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Government Data Management

Chinese local govt publishes spending online

By Xinghui Guo | 17 September 2011

2187 villages in Shaoxing city, East China’s Zhejiang province, will now need to submit documents online to perform any public spending.

Apart from getting the approval of higher authorities and to get invoices for auditing purposes, new city policies state that all trade contracts, original bills and any items related to rural collective resources must be published online.

This policy is to make public spending a more transparent affair. The city has even set up 536 touch screen computers in villages so those without a computer can access this information.

“We guarantee the residents’ rights to know, to participate and to supervise through the disclosure of information,” said a spokesperson from the Rural Collectives Resources Management Office in Shaoxing. “The system could expose embezzlement and waste, prompting village officials to fulfill their responsibilities with integrity. “Otherwise, lax management of the considerable resources in those villages will result in economic losses and aggravate people’s grievances, which will further affect stability.”

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