财政预算是国民经济的综合反映,是政府实施宏观调控的重要手段。无论中外,财政预算都是政府部门的核心问题。在西方,议会卡政府的一个重要手段就是卡财政预算;在我国,作为最高权力机关的人民代表大会对政府财政预算进行审议和监督,是宪法赋予它的一项重要权利。人民政协既不同于西方的议会,也不是国家的权力机关,它对政府的财政预算有没有发言权,能不能实行监督,怎样进行监督?1996年,政协北京市第八届委员会在全国率先成立了财政预算民主监督小组(简称财政监督小组),对这些问题进行了开创性的探索,至今已有近十年的实践。当时为什么建立这样一个小组,它对北京市的财政预算是怎样进行监督的,有何成效、经验和启示?在纪念北京市政协成立55周年之际,我带着这些疑问采访了第一任财政监督小组组长、第八届全国政协委员、第七、八两届北京市政协常委、原民革中央常委、北京市委副主委、年近八旬的著名金融专家甘培根先生。 The fiscal budget is a comprehensive reflection of the national economy and an important measure for the government to implement macro-control. Both at home and abroad, the budget is the core issue of government departments. In the West, an important instrument of the parliamentary government is the fiscal budget of the card. In our country, the examination and supervision of the government budget as the supreme organ of power by the people’s congress is an important right conferred on it by the Constitution. The CPPCC is different from the parliament in the West and is not the authority of the state. Does it have any say in the budget of the government? Can it be supervised? How can it be monitored? In 1996, the 8th committee of the Beijing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference The budget supervision group for democracy (referred to as the Financial Supervision Group) conducted a pioneering exploration of these issues and has practiced for nearly a decade now. At that time, why did such a group be established and how it supervised the budget of Beijing? What was its effectiveness, experience and inspiration? In commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of CPPCC in Beijing, I interviewed the first financial Chairman of the Supervision Team, member of the Eighth CPPCC National Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC for the Seventh and Eighth CPPCC members, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee and vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee, and Mr. Gan Peigen, a famous financial expert in recent eight years.