BEIJING—China’s export-dependent cities and provinces are scrambling to provide relief to exporters, stabilize employment, and avert the possibility of social unrest as an intensifying trade dispute with the United States threatens to further erode business.
Guangdong, China’s biggest province by gross domestic product, this week offered to cut corporate taxes, slash electricity prices, and reduce transport and land costs as additional U.S. tariffs since July exposed Chinese manufacturers to the prospect of empty order books.
