Efficiency drive sees progress

Remarkable progress has been made in the efficient use of resources and in fiscal expenditure, by speeding up performance auditing over the past few years, the country's top auditor has said.

"China trimmed 30 billion yuan ($4.22 billion) of investment after performance audits of infrastructure projects and prevented wastage of 27 billion yuan," Li Jinhua, auditor-general of the China National Auditing Office (CNAO), told China Daily in a recent interview.

Li is a member of the First Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which began yesterday in Beijing.