On March 28th, The Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group, Auditor General of the China National Audit Office (CNAO), Hu Zejun, led a delegation to visit the Commission of Audit of Macao (CA), met with the Commissioner of Audit, Ho Veng On, and had a discussion with the audit staff.

The members of the CNAO delegation included the Director of the CNAO Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office, Jiang Haiying, the Director of the CNAO Enterprise Audit 4th Bureau, He Yun, the Commissioner of the CNAO representative of Shanghai Office, Bao Shuowang, the Director General of the Audit Office of Guangdong Province, Lu Rongchun and the Division Chief of the CNAO Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office, Gao Tianyu.

During the meeting, Ho Veng On gave a summary on the development and evolution of the government audit in the last 20 years since the establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), expressing gratitude to the CNAO for its continuous support in staff training, audit informatization and its full support in the participation of activities related to international supreme audit institutions, which consolidated the audit work of Macao into a specific and in-depth monitoring mechanism. Ho Veng On introduced the work related to the management and specification of financial audit, special audit and performance audit; he also briefly presented the promotion of audit culture, internal audit and audit quality control. Looking to the future, he specifically mentioned that the CA would have prompt updates in the financial audit arrangement and computer system to actively follow up with the new MSAR Budget Framework Law, thus bringing a series of changes to the audit work and hoping that the CNAO will continue to provide support in the development of the current computer-aided audit system and in staff training.

Ho Veng On also referred that, with the promulgation of the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macao Greater Bay Area", audit works should be developed holistically at a large scale, therefore contribute to the implementation of this policy. Additionally, as the CA and the Hong Kong Audit Commission regularly participated in the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Audit Forum", Ho Veng On believes that many visits and activities beneficial to the audit departments of those nine integrated cities of the Greater Bay Area would take place in the future, as the proactive development of that area.

Hu Zejun acknowledged the CA's efforts in the audit work under the Basic Law in recent years. She presented CNAO's specific work in strengthening its oversight for overall implementation since the establishment of the Central Audit Committee last year. The Auditor General stated that audit oversight is an indispensable part of the party and state control system, which its responsibility is to implement Government's guidelines and major policies. She also mentioned that in order to develop effective work, it is necessary to deepen the statistical technology of big data, improve quality control and audit effectiveness, raise awareness of the importance of an internal audit of subject entities, so that governmental bodies and public enterprises can minimize risks, therefore achieve high quality development and play the audit role to fight against corruption.

Hu Zejun agreed with the CA in strengthening the training of its staff and developing the computer-aided audit in the past. She emphasized that audit work should developed as time paces, actively follow the implementation of the government policies, to facilitate the auditees to perform their duties according to the law; and through the power of audit inspection to promote perfection and good development in various policies and institutional rules.

During the stay, Auditor-General Hu Zejun specifically visited the audit staff on how to apply the database in performance audit and explained about the renewal of work arrangement according to the Budget Framework Law. The CNAO delegation subsequently had a meeting with more than 80 CA staff to exchange views on the application of the "On-site Audit Computer Program", experiences sharing of those participated in “Intermediate Computer Training Course” organized by CNAO, full coverage of the audit and big data priorities in the audit, the current development of the 3rd phase of the "China’s Golden Auditing Project", as well as the working requirement of the youth officer. The Auditor-General encourage CA's staff to raise their self-demand, stick to the principles, work and study actively to contribute to the MSAR audits, stating that the CNAO will continue to support the development of the CA in terms of staff training and audit informatization.