Recently, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Finance announced its special inspection on the publicity of budget and final accounts in 2018, and released three transparency rankings of budget and final accounts at the provincial, municipal and county (city, district) levels. The reporter found that the government departments (units) at all levels have opened their “money bags” to the public, achieving 100% publicity in their budget and final accounts for the first time.

Only by establishing a comprehensive, standardized, open and transparent budget and final accounts system can the people truly supervise the "money bags" of the government. In recent years, Zhejiang Province has continuously promoted the publicity of budget and final accounts, but there are still some problems, such as the incompleteness of the publicity of budget and final accounts of some departments and units, and the lack of sufficient details in the publicity of the public funds. In order to protect the public's right to know and supervise public finance, and force some departments and units to speed up their openness of budget and final accounts, the Provincial Department of Finance released for the first time the transparency rankings of the budget and final accounts last year. Through innovative measures, it aims to promote the establishment of a comprehensive, standardized and transparent budget system.

Looking at the rankings, you may get to know the degree of transparency in budget and final accounts at a glance. In the ranking of provincial departments, 103 departments are on the list, of which 75 scored full marks, including the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee, the General Office of the Provincial People's Congress, the General Office of the Provincial Government, the General Office of the Provincial CPPCC, and the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection. In the ranking of municipal units, Hangzhou ranks first with full marks, and Quzhou and Shaoxing rank the second and third respectively. In the ranking of the county (city, district) units, Jianggan District ranks first, and Shangcheng District, Gongshu District, Xiacheng District, Yuhang District, Chun'an County, Shangyu District, Lin'an District, Xiaoshan District and Binjiang District rank the second to tenth respectively.

"Compared with last year, the publicity rate of the budget and final accounts of the whole province has been greatly increased. For the first time, the publicity rate has reached 100%, and the content publicized has been further expanded," said an official from the Provincial Department of Finance.

Next, the Provincial Department of Finance will take the opportunity to issue rectification notices one by one to cities and counties (cities and districts) with problems, and through the rectification of problems, establish and improve a long-term mechanism of openness in budget and final accounts.