At the end of the year and the end of next year, the total budget of Changhua County's annual expenditure will reach as high as 58.9 billion yuan, approaching 60 billion yuan, a new high in history.

(Photo by reporter Zhang Congqiu)

[Reporter Zhang Congqiu/Changhua Report] At the end of the year and the end of the year, the general budget of Changhua County next year (2011) has been reviewed and approved by the parliament. The total annual income is 56.970573 billion yuan, and the annual expenditure is 58.895889 trillion yuan, setting a new record in the history of Changhua County The scale of the annual expenditure budget is close to 60 billion yuan, and the budget gap is 1.925 billion yuan short, which can only be covered by debt.

Many people are stunned. During the election, the county magistrate Wang Huimei was proud of her achievements in repaying 4.2 billion yuan in debt in 4 years. In the first year of re-election, the debt amount was nearly 2 billion yuan, which is almost half of the amount in the past 4 years. Money is so fierce , I really want to show real achievements in politics, and stop pretending that I don't have money, so that I can live up to the expectations and sustenance of the more than 369,000 voters who voted for her.

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According to a concise comparative analysis table of Changhua County’s annual budget for next year approved by the council, next year’s annual budget will increase by more than 2.2 billion yuan compared to this year’s 56.6 billion yuan. The highest, followed by social welfare expenditures of more than 11.9 billion yuan, and economic development expenditures of only 6.9 billion yuan, the amount has not increased but decreased compared to this year.

In this regard, the Accounting Office stated that the main reason for the new high annual expenditure is to cooperate with the central government to implement the policy of reducing children, the expenditure of childcare subsidies and childcare allowances, and the quasi-public childcare funds. Nearly 2 billion yuan is the shortest shortfall since the county magistrate Wang Huimei took office. Compared with the shortfall of more than 3 billion yuan in the past, the debt amount is not high.

The Finance Department pointed out that by the end of October this year, Changhua County Mayor’s debt was 13.2 billion yuan, with a debt ratio of 19.49%, which is 50% below the upper limit of the public debt law. There is still a lot of room for short-term debt of 4.3 billion yuan. , the average debt burden per person is 14,000 yuan, a new low in the past 10 years.

Changhua County's social welfare budget for next year will increase by nearly 12% compared to this year. The county government said that it will mainly be for preschool childcare and other child benefits.

(Photographed by reporter Zhang Congqiu)