No. The survey results show that Audit Watch is not a core periodical, but a provincial periodical. Audit Watch magazine is sponsored by China Times Economic Publishing House, which is in charge of the National Audit Office. Audit Watch (domestic unified number CN 10 1477/F), which is headed by the National Audit Office and sponsored by China Times Economic Publishing House, was officially launched and distributed in Beijing recently with the approval of the press and publication authorities. The magazine is a bimonthly political and economic magazine for government decision makers, auditors, senior managers of enterprises, researchers from universities and think tanks.