Gǎigé de mùbiāo zhī yī jiùshì yào jiǎnshǎo wénshānhuìhǎi.
One of the goals of the reform is to cut down on excessive paperwork and meetings.
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usage
Signature phrase of modern Chinese bureaucratic reform rhetoric. Almost always about government offices or state-owned enterprises. Paired verbs: 减少 (reduce), 困扰 (trouble), 整治 (rectify), 深陷 (deeply mired in).
memory
文 (documents) + 山 (mountain) and 会 (meetings) + 海 (sea) — paperwork piled as high as a mountain, meetings spreading out like a sea. Each pair is a scale metaphor for an office nightmare.
