On June 18, 2013, at a work conference in Beijing, Xi Jinping named the “four winds” that the Party’s new campaign would fight: formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance. Formalism came first.
In July 2023, a Xinhua commentary called “carrying out meetings with meetings and implementing documents with documents” a chronic bad practice that had to be fought harder. In June 2024, an article on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection warned against “implementing meetings with meetings and implementing documents with documents.”