Digitizing Empowerment and Whole-Process People's Democracy:Practice and Effect Analysis of NPC's Budget Online Supervision Reform
The whole-process people's democracy represents a comprehensive and ubiquitous democratic system,with NPC's Budget Online Supervision serving as a practice of this democratic system in the field of fiscal governance.It effectively translates the institutional advantages of whole-process people's democracy into governance efficiency.The empowerment of digital technologies addresses the shortcomings in budget oversight by NPC deputies,while intelligent decision-support technologies enhance the scientific decision-making and supervisory capabilities of these representatives.Empirical research demonstrates that local governments initiating reforms with NPC's Budget Online Supervision exhibit higher fiscal expenditure performance.Further research has revealed that NPC deputies can enhance the effectiveness of budgetary online supervision by proactively engaging in budget formulation and actively participating in performance management through the budgetary online supervision platform.In the future,the basic data of the budget network supervision system should be further enriched,and the level of intelligent decision-making should be improved.At the same time,the network platform should be integrated into the workstation system of deputies to NPC deputies,so that NPC deputies can widely collect public opinions on public budget items,and further improve the efficiency of local financial expenditure.