As an effective governance tool,documents play a critical role in the operation of bureaucracy in China.However,an excess of dependence on documents causes an excessive production of documents,even loads of redundant documents that are ‘anti-efficiency’,which makes local governments struggle with the increasing number of paperwork.After research into the motive and process of document production in town-level and district-level government in District A,this paper finds that the production of redundant documents,which is dominated by the logic...