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Li’s talks tough to local governments

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Wednesday's emergency meeting on the economy was truly remarkable.

To our knowledge, there has never been a meeting attended by so many officials – up to 170,000 by some estimates.

The reason is simple: Local governments are critical to turning the economy around.

They implement most of t...