The Shenzhen Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone recently held the first joint conference on economic responsibility auditing in 2025. The Conference was presided over by Zhang Zhibin, a member of the Zone’s Party Working Committee, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Working Committee, and director of the Inspectors’ Office, and was attended by responsible officials from the Discipline Inspection Working Committee (Auditing Bureau), Personnel Bureau and Bureau of Development & Reform and Finance of the Zone.

In the conference, the participants studied the guiding principles in documents issued by higher-level auditing authorities on economic responsibility auditing, deliberated on the reports concerning major issues discovered in 2023 economic responsibility auditing and the progress in rectifying them, results of 2024 economic responsibility auditing for responsible persons of the Zone’s Bureau of Public Works and the application of auditing results, and planned for 2025 economic responsibility auditing, further arranging the economic responsibility auditing.

In the conference, it was resolved that the following measures shall be implemented: Firstly, it is required to enhance political commitment and thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on auditing so that economic responsibility auditing can be commanded with ease. It is necessary to carry out the Party’s centralized and unified leadership throughout economic responsibility auditing, enhance coordinated planning, and make integrated advances. Secondly, starting with the use of fiscal funds, it is required to exercise power in a well-regulated way and make headway in combating corruption and building a clean government in key such procedures as transactions of public resources, and project approval and oversight. Furthermore, it is required to apply the “three distinctions” (the three distinctions refer to those between errors caused by lack of experience in pilot reforms and deliberate violations of discipline and law; between errors made in conducting experiments that are not explicitly restricted by higher-level authorities and arbitrary violations of discipline and law in the face of higher-level authorities’ explicit prohibition; between unwitting errors made in pursuing development and violations of discipline and law for personal gains), give full play to the guiding role of the error tolerance and correction mechanism, determine responsibilities in a precise way, and make assessments prudently to enable officials to perform their duties according to law, and abide by the law, regulations and discipline. Thirdly, to enhance coordinated efforts, all departments need to improve their political stance and become keenly aware of the significance of economic responsibility auditing. Bearing in mind actual conditions, all departments shall promptly launch studies on typical, common, and potential issues discovered in auditing as well as auditing suggestions, so as to facilitate the application of auditing results, improve the efficacy of economic responsibility auditing, and forge synergy to ensure the full delivery of efforts made in the Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone.