Sun Baohou, Deputy Auditor General of the National Audit Office of China, attended the 9th meeting of the INTOSAI Working Group on Key National Indicators in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia from April 26th to 28th, 2016.

Meeting was hosted by the Control Chamber of the Republic of Armenia. 36 participants from 13 members of the working group attended the meeting. During the meeting, the WG activities for the period from March 2015 to April 2016, the final report on the results of the subproject "Analysis of opportunities on the use of KNI for international comparisons in the context of sustainable development and recommendations", the development of the Knowledge base (KB) on key national indicators, report on the practical use of the “Key National Indicators: Guidance for Supreme Audit Institutions”, and the work plan for 2016 are reviewed and discussed.

At the meeting, Dr Sun Baohou made a presentation on the application of key national indicators to social security audit in China. He gave a brief introduction to the the building of China's social security system, shared the CNAO's experiences on identifying, collecting, analysing and using key indicators, and proposed a vision for key indicators use in social security audit, implying that indicators for social security policy evaluation and routine analysis and using of key indicators will be highlighted with ways of organizing social security audits being subject to great changes.