Jargon and Endless Talk Stall Reforms, Peking Complains
Many Chinese bureaucrats stall, spout official jargon and hold endless discussions instead of getting things done, the official Communist Party newspaper said in a scathing commentary Tuesday.
“We should shout in a loud voice at them, ‘Comrades, wake up, wake up!’ ” the front-page commentary in People’s Daily said.
Some Chinese bureaucrats have the attitude that new party policies do not affect them, and some officials and people at the grass-roots level “dispute over trifles and moan and groan” about changes, the commentary said, and many bureaucrats work in “slow motion” and “soak in a sea of meetings” that have no practical results.
China’s official press and leading officials have said recently that many reforms are being held back by bureaucrats who resist them.
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