This means you can give someone advice but you cannot force them to use it. I'm Anna Matteo.

意思是说，你可以给人建议，但不能强迫人接受这个建议。

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But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.

ECONOMIST: Devolution isn't working as planned