Past solution to formalism scrapped as needless burden

Liu Mingli, who was sent to the village of Guhe by the government of Fuyang, Anhui province, in 2014 to work on poverty alleviation, has been unable recently to log into an app that she used to upload photos and summaries of her daily work.

It's part of an effort by the authorities to curb formalism and bureaucracy, freeing workers from routine tasks of little importance and letting them focus on more substantial things.

At the end of 2017, the provincial poverty alleviation authorities launched a smartphone application that proved to be a headache for thousands of officials who, like Liu, had been sent to rural areas to assist.