Next show: Watching China's budget - 下期預告：解析中國的預算

A draft amendment to China’s Budget Law has received?nearly 331,000 comments and suggestions from about 20,000 members of the public as of Aug 5, according to the National People's Congress, China’s top legislature.

This is the second-largest number of comments a draft law has received since legislators began seeking public comment on laws via the Internet in 2005, staff from the NPC’s legislation committee said.

Details about the comments directed at the Budget Law have not yet been released. However, several analysts said such attention to the draft shows an unusual public interest in levies and expenses, as the government continues to harvest surplus revenue.

The amendment, if passed, would establish a set of requirements on budget making and enforcing, such as requiring governments to include all revenue and spending in annual budgets, making the budget public after it is approved by the people's congresses, and submitting budget adjustments for local legislatures’ review before making any fiscal changes.

But to what extent will the draft meet the public’s expectations? What problems does the current Budget Law present? While a lot of items in the Budget Law can be quite technical, how can the public watch China’s budget? Please be sure to join us in our next episode.

據全國人大的消息，截至8月5日，人大法工委收到了來自全國2萬多公民的33萬多條關于修改《預算法》草案的建議。

這是自2005年全國人大向公眾網上征集法律修改意見和建議以來，收到第二多回復的一次。

目前全國人大還沒有公布收到的意見和建議，但是專家分析，這次公眾如此熱烈的回應反映了全社會對政府收支情況的高度關注，尤其是在近幾年政府財政收入大幅增加的背景之下。如果草案通過，這部法律將建立一系列的法規，要求政府必須將所有收入和支出納入預算并公開預算；地方政府必修改預算之前必須由地方人大先通過。

但是在多大程度上這部法律草案能夠滿足公眾的期望？現行的《預算法》存在什么問題？預算這樣一個技術性很強的問題，公眾怎么才能讀懂？請鎖定下一期《解析中國》。