It was a sprawling cultural and tourism project that completely went off the rails, and now Beijing is using it as evidence of grass-roots government mismanagement – one of three high-profile examples of wastefulness newly flagged by China’s disciplinary authorities.Following an investigation, the project – dubbed “Yaohan Longevity City” and located in Gongcheng Yao autonomous county of Guilin – was condemned as a “severe waste of resources”.Initially hailed in 2018 as a key initiative in the...