Enhanced National Integration,Not Fragmentation

China has such a vast territory with a huge population and a diversity of localconditions that Mao Zedong once compared the country itself to a“mini U-nited Nations.”In an article entitled“Ten Major Relations”written in 1955,Maodevoted two entire separate sections to analyze how to treat central-local andcoastal-interior relations,issues closely related to the development of the national e-conomy and preservation of national unity.He recognized the importance of mobi-lizing the initiative of the localities,yet the highly centralized planning system made