Gansu Provincial Audit Department

The Gansu Provincial Audit Office is a constituent department of the Provincial Government, operating at the directorate level.Primary Responsibilities:

(1) Overseeing audit work throughout the province. Conducting audit supervision to verify the authenticity, legality, and efficiency of fiscal revenues and expenditures, as well as financial revenues and expenditures falling within the scope of audit supervision as stipulated by laws and regulations. Auditing public funds, state-owned assets, state-owned resources, and the fulfilment of economic responsibilities by leading officials. Implementing natural resource asset audits upon the departure of leading officials. Conducting follow-up audits on the implementation of major national policies and measures, as well as important provincial work deployments. Assumes responsibility for the outcomes of audits, special audit investigations, and verifications of relevant audit reports from social audit institutions, and oversees the rectification of deficiencies by audited entities.

(2) Implements audit laws, regulations, and policies. Organises the drafting of local regulations and rules pertaining to auditing, establishes audit work rules and systems, and supervises their implementation. Formulates and implements audit work plans for specialised fields and annual audit programmes. Participates in drafting local regulations and rules concerning finance, economics, and related matters. Conduct audit evaluations in accordance with the law on matters subject to direct audit, investigation, or verification, and issue audit decisions or recommendations.

(3) Submit annual audit reports on the implementation of the provincial budget and other fiscal revenues and expenditures to the Provincial Party Committee Audit Commission. Submit annual audit findings reports on the implementation of the provincial budget and other fiscal revenues and expenditures to the Provincial Government. Upon delegation by the Provincial Government, submit audit work reports and reports on the rectification of issues identified through audits concerning the implementation of the provincial budget and other fiscal revenues and expenditures to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress. Report to the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government on the audit and special audit investigation of other matters and their results. Publicise audit results to the public in accordance with the law. Notify relevant departments of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, as well as municipal Party committees and governments, of audit circumstances and results.

(4) Directly audit the following matters, issue audit reports, and make audit decisions within the scope of statutory authority, including: the implementation of major national policies and measures, and the implementation of important provincial work arrangements; The execution of the provincial budget and other fiscal revenues and expenditures; the execution of budgets, draft final accounts, and other fiscal revenues and expenditures of provincial departments (including directly subordinate units); the execution of budgets, draft final accounts, and other fiscal revenues and expenditures of municipal and prefectural people's governments; provincial fiscal transfer payments; the financial revenues and expenditures of public institutions and social organisations using provincial fiscal funds; the execution of budgets and final accounts for provincially-funded construction projects and those primarily funded by the province; the management, use, construction, and operation of major provincial public works projects; Natural resource management, pollution prevention and control, and ecological conservation and restoration; assets, liabilities, and profit or loss of provincial state-owned enterprises and financial institutions, as well as enterprises and financial institutions where provincial state capital holds a controlling or dominant position as stipulated by the provincial government, both domestically and overseas; financial revenues and expenditures of provincial non-operational institutions stationed abroad; financial revenues and expenditures of social security funds, social donation funds, and other funds and capital; international organisation and foreign government aid and loan projects authorised by the National Audit Office; other matters stipulated by laws and regulations.

(5) Conducting economic responsibility audits and natural resource asset departure audits on provincially managed leading officials and principal responsible persons of other units subject to audit supervision by the Audit Office in accordance with regulations.

(6) Organising and implementing special audit investigations into specific matters related to provincial fiscal revenues and expenditures, such as the implementation of national financial laws, regulations, rules, policies, and macro-control measures; fiscal budget management; or the management and utilisation of state-owned assets.

(vii) To inspect the implementation of audit decisions in accordance with the law, urge rectification of issues identified through audits, and handle matters related to administrative reconsideration, administrative litigation, or provincial government adjudication concerning audit decisions initiated by audited entities. To assist and cooperate with relevant departments in investigating and handling related major cases.

(viii) To guide and supervise internal audit work, and to verify relevant audit reports issued by social audit institutions for entities subject to audit supervision in accordance with the law.

(9) Jointly lead municipal and prefectural audit organs with municipal and prefectural people's governments. Legally lead and supervise the operations of municipal and prefectural audit organs, organise them to conduct special audits or audit investigations on specific projects, and rectify or order rectification of audit decisions made by municipal and prefectural audit organs that violate national regulations. Jointly manage the heads of municipal and prefectural audit organs in accordance with cadre management authority.

(10) Guide and promote the application of information technology within the audit domain.

(11) Complete other tasks assigned by the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial Government, and the National Audit Office.

(12) Functional Transformation. Further refine the audit management system, strengthen the coordination of audit work across the province, clarify the functional positioning of audit organs at all levels, rationalise internal responsibilities, optimise the allocation of audit resources, bolster frontline audit capabilities, and establish a centralised, unified, comprehensive, authoritative, and efficient audit supervision system. Optimise audit working mechanisms, uphold technology-driven audit enhancement, refine operational procedures, improve working methods, strengthen communication and coordination with relevant departments, fully mobilise internal and social audit resources, and enhance supervisory synergy.

Postal Address: 246 Jinchang North Road, Chengguan District, Lanzhou City

Postcode: 730030

Office Telephone: 0931-5189712

Fax: 0931-8838712

Office Hours: 8:30am–12:00pm, 2:30pm–6:00pm