However, there is international pressure to bind subnational governments to procurement rules prohibiting domestic content quotas on all purchases above certain low thresholds.
Unlike nation-states, of course, these subnational governments are not sovereign actors, and do not, for instance, command an army or send ambassadors.
The central government further established special economic zones within the coastal provinces, which the relevant subnational governments have operated and expanded upon, even establishing sister city relations internationally.
Meaning, greater political and administrative autonomy for the subnational government should be complemented with more comprehensive and far-reaching taxation and revenue-raising powers.