After I came to usa, I was doubting the efficiency or office productivity very much.
First you can see people having private calls while they are working, which is good for their family and friends but not good for the work.
And then, after you submit something to some place, it needs a long time to get your result back.
Before you do something, when you try to get some information from them, it takes one gazillion years to get reply if you inquired by email, before you get the right person to talk with, your call would be sent to the Pacific to take a bath if you try to call somebody.
Because China and USA share the Pacific, they are just in different sides of the ocean, most of the government office productivity is the same, slow and sucks.