A workshop to train senior auditors from African countries
opened Sunday in south China's island province of Hainan.
As part of the consensus reached at the Beijing Summit of the
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the workshop will greatly
enhance the exchange and cooperation between the auditing
departments of China and African countries, said Li Jinhua,
auditor-general of the National Audit Office (NAO), at the
workshop's opening ceremony.
"China is ready to share its experience and lessons in audit
practice with African colleagues," said Li.
Twenty-four senior audit officials from 14 African countries
will participate in the four-day workshop.
The African auditors will be briefed about China's auditing
practices at various levels by the NAO's deputy auditor-general Liu
Jiayi.
Other training courses include dealing with false accounting,
detecting and cracking down on money laundering, financial
embezzlement and corruption as well as supervision over
governmental public spending
The seminar will also provide a platform for both African and
Chinese auditors to discuss practical audit cases in Beijing,
Hainan and Shenzhen.
Ludovick Utouch, top auditor of Tanzania, said he many African
countries' audit offices wanted more help from the NAO, and to
share knowledge and experience of China's audit practice to improve
their own audit abilities.
Senior audit officials from South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia,
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sudan, Morocco, Ghana, Gabon, Ethiopia, Egypt,
the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon arrived in Hainan on
Saturday to attend the seminar.
The NAO has organized international auditor training courses
since 2002. Since then, China has established cooperative
relationship in audit-related affairs with 112 countries and
regions.
(Xinhua News Agency November 13, 2006)