Shaanxi reports misuse of $2 billion

XI'AN: The Shaanxi provincial audit office reported that about 13.7 billion yuan ($2 billion) had been misused in the past 18 months.

A further 843 million yuan had been lost or wasted on provincial projects, it said.

Qu Fangfang, director of the office, submitted a report to the local people's congress on Wednesday on 10,000 government departments and units in the province.