ABSTRACT
In Mainland China, the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Local People's Congresses (LPC) are organs through which people exercise their state rights. In 1999, Mainland China initiated a programme of budgetary reform, including reform of departmental budgets, treasury management, and government procurement. The Constitution of the People's Republic of China (PRC) establishes the supreme status of the NPC by defining it as the highest organ of state power. This chapter introduces the powers of the people's congress in accordance with the letter of the law. It provides an analysis of why the existing budget supervision in the people's congress is not sufficient, including the impacts of deficient legal protection, independency of the institutional setting, and incompatibility in the budgetary decision-making procedure. The chapter introduces an innovative way of overseeing budget- participatory budgeting (PB) with the case study of Wenling.
