Growing dominance and soft power enhancement: Exploring Chinese cities’ continual efforts to promote international sports events from a city network perspective

• Yubin Ou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

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• Gengzhi Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hgzhi3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

  Affiliations School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, Guangdong, P. R. China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9987-0353

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• Yixiao Xu,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Zhuhai Xingge City Development Co., Ltd., Zhuhai, Guangdong, P. R. China

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• Anan Xie,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

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• Desheng Xue

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, Guangdong, P. R. China

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