Say no to inertia of officials

In the Government Work Report he delivered to the fifth plenary session of the 12th National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang said the central government must continue its efforts to simplify administrative procedures and delegate more power to lower-level governments and optimize services.

Over the past four years, the central government has emphasized the need to simplify administrative procedures and delegate powers to lower levels of governments but doing so remains a particularly complex and arduous task.

Under a series of rectification campaigns launched by the top authorities, the working style of officials has been changed for the better in recent years. However, there are still mediocre and lazy officials who act in a more covert manner, as well as those who take no action at all, since the mindset still exists among some public employees that doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.