City vehicle budget 'on road to more transparency'

BEIJING - The capital's municipal government will spend about 40 million yuan ($6.1 million) on new official vehicles this year, Beijing News reported on Wednesday.

In addition, the municipal government's departments will use about 58 million yuan of public money this year on business trips, conferences and domestic or overseas training, said the paper, which quoted budget plans made public by the local government departments on Tuesday.

All 58 local government departments and their affiliated units in Beijing had been required by the city to reveal their budget plans for this year ahead of March 10, the city's finance department had said earlier.