The Communist Party is revving up its propaganda, disciplinary and personnel apparatus to get China’s myriad officials to shed their fatigue and grudges from three years of battling Covid-19 and embrace a drive for development.
Following heated discussion about officials’ “lying flat” mentality, top party mouthpieces have published harsh commentaries since late last month criticising such attitudes among grass-roots officials. At the same time, dozens of regional party committees and local governments, mostly in major economic centres, have called on party members and officials to reinvigorate their “can-do” spirit.
A sketch depicting a work-shy official’s reluctance to patch a hole between two districts featured in state broadcaster China Central Television’s annual Spring Festival Gala – a show heavily cloaked in propaganda about key national policies – on January 21, the eve of the Lunar New Year.
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