Auditor wages war on costs

50-year-old PLA service member is known for being tough on contractors, soft on books

Chen Yujin, a senior auditor for the People's Liberation Army for the past 28 years, uses his economics expertise and financial savvy on a different kind of battlefield: the project sites where the military spends billions of yuan on construction.

Since 1987, when Chen started working as an auditor at the Jinan Military Area Command, he has audited more than 3,300 projects and saved the PLA at least 675 million yuan ($106 million) in project costs.