# China’s top lawmakers are telling officials across the country to hold fewer meetings and give shorter speeches in a bid to root out “pointless formalities”. State media report streamlining meetings and capping documents at five-thousand words were among suggestions in a detailed government notice issued to free officials from bureaucratism and pointless formalities. Fewer meetings and less paperwork will mean they can devote more energy to implementation. The notice, jointly issued by the Communist Party’s Central Committee and the State Council, follows refreshed rules against lavish spending and vanity projects.
Fewer meetings and less paperwork for Chinese officials, more energy for implementation