https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/nathan-sperber/the-mayor-economy Created Fri, 23/02/2024 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 23/02/2024 - 00:00 China’s sheer size, and the revival of decentralised decision-making since the early post-Mao decades, means that a great deal of economic statecraft occurs at lower levels: provinces, cities, districts, counties, townships and so on.