Too many meetings, forms and chat groups leave no time to work

Editor's note: Thanks to the central leadership's repeated calls for them to be curbed, the formalism and bureaucracy of government departments have been reduced, but it still requires time and efforts to root them out. People's Daily summarizes advice and complaints from some civil servants at the basic level:

Too many meetings is a common complaint of local civil servants, some of whom even complain they spend all day in meetings and then have to work extra hours to fulfill their duties.

Some local civil servants working in small towns may have to travel some 20 kilometers to attend meetings, which is even more time-consuming.