Lawyers want to track transport card deposits
Money paid as a deposit for public transport cards should be audited and details of any funds - which could contain billions of yuan - should be disclosed to the public, according to three lawyers who have called on the central government to tighten regulations on the deposit fund.
The lawyers, from Henan and Jiangsu provinces and Beijing, submitted a letter to the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council on Tuesday urging the government to better regulate the deposit money for the country's more than 180 million public transport cards.
Wen Lihua, one of the three lawyers, said that each public transport card requires a deposit of 10 to 30 yuan ($1.57 to $4.72), and the total value of the 180 million cards, as revealed by public information, is 1.8 to 5.4 billion yuan.