According to the results of a People's Daily survey published January 29, 2010, corruption and anti-corruption measures are the highest concern of Chinese web users. Thus citizens welcomed the recent publication by a small county in Sichuan Province of its expenditures and quickly started refering to it as a "naked" government. Guandong Province has followed suit and announced its plans to publicize its budget this year.

On the Baimiao county website, the local government has posted almost their entire budget for 2010, including their social security expenses, accounting for 400,000 yuan, as well as the amount of subsidies provided for civil servants. Their budget even notes that the government is planning to buy some notebooks at a price of 1.5 yuan per book!

In the Governmental Expense Budget of 2010, the government gives a detailed list of expenses of the county-level government in January and February 2010, including treating guests and using and maintaining government vehicles, expenses ranging from 1.5 yuan to 1,269 yuan. The budget shows January's total expenses to be 8,240.5 yuan. For each budget item, the government has provided not only the cost, purpose and time, but also the exact people who have used, supervised and arranged the money.

"In the past, people always doubted officials-believing they are corrupt. It's hard to explain yourself to them, but facts speak for themselves," Zhang Ying, Party Secretary of the Baimiao County said regarding the reason his county has chosen to publicize the governmental budget.