China's drive toward becoming a soccer superpower is reflective of its own political economy. On the political side, its objectives are national pride domestically, and great power status internationally. Public agencies, subnational (provincial) governments and local (municipal) authorities follow the Chinese Communist Partýs top-down approach. On the economic side, the evolution of Chinese football is to build integrated industrial supply- chains, which enables the country and its businesses to exert control at all levels of production.

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