Internet users flooded the web with comments yesterday lauding a National Audit Office (NAO) investigation report, which revealed how eight provinces, an autonomous region and a municipality misused billions of yuan from an agricultural fund in 2007.

At the same time, netizens across the country called for stricter supervision of public funds.

The NAO on Wednesday made public its "spot check report", revealing that Henan, Gansu, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Fujian and Shaanxi provinces, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Chongqing municipality misused 2.69 billion yuan ($394 million) from an agriculture fund two years ago. More than 58 million yuan of the fund was spent on constructing houses and purchasing cars, the report said.