III. Performing Well to Ensure

Satisfactory Implementation of the 2007 Budgets

Taking all factors into consideration, we will need to focus on performing the following tasks well to meet the general requirements for the government's work in 2007 and ensure satisfactory implementation of the 2007 budgets.

1. We need to pay very close attention to the collection and management of tax revenue and non-tax revenue to promote steady growth in government revenue. We need to strengthen revenue collection and management in accordance with the law on the basis of strong support for economic development and growth in the size of the economic "pie." We need to work hard to rectify and standardize order in tax revenue, and aggressively combat all illegal acts such as tax evasion and tax fraud. We also need to strictly control tax exemptions and reductions and step up efforts to terminate preferential tax policies that have expired. Also, we must resolutely eliminate and correct unauthorized introduction of tax exemption and reduction policies in disguised forms such as first levying taxes, then granting rebates. We will steadily promote the horizontal computerized integration of the bank accounts for the tax revenue of finance departments and tax departments with the treasury across the country to improve collection and management of all types of tax revenue, including revenue from VAT and corporate and individual income taxes. We will steadily proceed with the trial reform of the tax expenditure system. We will make a comprehensive review of and standardize non-tax revenue, resolutely eliminate inappropriate and illegal non-tax revenue items, and improve non-tax revenue management policies and systems. The focus of this effort will be on formulating the Measures for Managing Government Funds and the Measures for Collecting and Managing Non-Tax Government Revenue. All revenue and expenditures for land transfers will be put under local budgetary control to improve oversight and management of revenue and expenditures for land transfers and to further strengthen the collection and management of resource-based revenue such as that from land, sea areas and mineral resources. We will strengthen the management of benefits derived from the state-owned assets of administrative bodies and public service institutions by putting the revenue derived from the compensated use or disposal of these state-owned assets under budgetary control as non-tax revenue. We will keep revenue and expenditures separate and make a diligent and constant effort to ensure success in the trial to separate the income of individuals from the administrative powers of their employers and from the state-owned assets managed by their employers to promote standardization of the pattern of income distribution at the source. We will strive to collect all revenue due to ensure steady growth in government revenue.

2. We need to work hard on reform of the budgetary management system to make it more scientific and modern. We will be carrying out a timely review of our experience in the classification of government revenue and expenditure items. In order to address new situations and problems, we need to improve the arrangement of budget items and work out a budgetary management model under the new classification system. On the basis of a sound system of standards for expenditures, we will launch a trial formulation of budgets for 14 central government departments and enterprises, including the Ministry of Agriculture. To make these budgets more detailed, expenditure items will be organized according to economic classification. In addition, we will thoroughly study the issue of how to improve the report format for the government budget so that the budget truly gives a complete picture, is more open and transparent, and is easier to oversee. We need to continue to strengthen the management of surplus revenue, energetically carry out performance evaluation trials and set up a sound system of standards for expenditures. Public service institutions subject to the Civil Service Law will be incorporated into the trial to set funding according to the number of employees in order to replace the practice of setting the allowable amounts for in-kind expenditures with the method of setting funding according to number of employees. We will work out a mechanism for organically integrating asset management and budgetary management. We need to expand the reform to centralize expenditures in the treasury at the level of the central and provincial governments to incorporate all lower-level organs that compile budgets, central government funds, retirement funds, and government funds held at the provincial level. All prefecture and city governments should strive to carry out this reform, and county governments should energetically work for progress in this reform. All organs under central government departments and revenue-collecting organs will carry out reform of the collection and disposal of non-tax income, the scope of funds included in there form at the provincial level will be expanded to cover all non-tax income, and the reform should also be energetically promoted below the provincial level. We need to further improve the government procurement system. The scope of items subject to government procurement will be expanded and greater use will be made of special allocations for particular purchases to give full play to the function of government procurement policy and to standardize government procurement procedures. We need to tighten management of the state-owned assets of administrative bodies and public service institutions. We will review the assets of these bodies and institutions, introduce rules and regulations on the management of such assets and set up the basic elements of a dynamic national information system to monitor and manage these assets. We need to accelerate work to set up the Government Financial Management Information System, make better use of advanced information technology in budgetary management and raise the level of budgetary compilation and management.

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