Customers, spared several visits to government offices, where queues grow like weeds, are enthusiastic.
And obtaining a business permit turned into its own 18-month odyssey, with numerous visits to government offices and the occasional request for bribes.
This defeatism is deepened by visits to government offices that use pirated copies of Microsoft "Office".The government has acknowledged the problem, but few of the officials dealing with counterfeiting have travelled abroad.
It is not clear how often this number will be reached, but a government website said last June that petitioning visits to government offices in Beijing were "increasing dramatically".
While some searched among the trees or hacked away at the ground, other relatives in the group described years of fruitless visits to government and judicial offices that left them feeling officials were mocking their pain.
Ron LaBrec, a Coast Guard spokesman, said that about a week into the cleanup response, the Coast Guard started enforcing a policy that prohibits news media from accompanying candidates for public office on visits to government facilities, "to help manage the large number of requests for media embeds and visits by elected officials".
Mini programs are digitizing many tasks that traditionally required numerous visits to government offices, such as renewing one's Social Security card.
In 2008, there had been more than 3 million outpatient visits to government hospitals, and more than 8 million outpatient visits to primary health centers and extended health centers in the country.
At issue is whether government monitoring of networks could lead to intrusion in the digital lives of private citizens, whether through monitoring their visits to government Web sites or by blurring the line between government and private networks, privacy advocates argue.
"I've been told to go stand in the corner because this is haram [sinful]," Karadsheh recalled from his visits to government ministries.
