China’s cyberspace regulator has introduced an initiative to target excessive formalism and bureaucracy within state digital applications and social media. However, China observers caution that officials could exploit this system for personal profit.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpiece, People’s Daily, reported on Dec. 18 that the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (CCAC) issued a guideline in an attempt to enhance the efficiency of government apps and social media platforms and prevent digital bureaucracy, a bureaucratic phenomenon known as “formalism on the fingertips.”
