Ban Yue Tan's research found that in recent years, there have been situations in some places where superiors "distrust" grassroots and grassroots "fail to explain" to their superiors. This trend needs to be reversed urgently, he says.

Some unreasonable documents, meetings, inspections, guidance and assistance have exhausted the grassroots. Some cadres reported that three divisions from the same provincial department went to the same county at the same time for investigation, and the county could only receive, accompany, and report one by one.