Why Is It Important for Local Officials to Bring Resources to Their Locality?

$1.5 trillion of the spent on this course of the high speed rail. Why is it important for me as a municipal cadre to try to steer resources that are being spent on this project to my location? Is it just about career promotion? What's the full set of incentives that are working for local level officials? "It gives locality and its leaders good publicities," he says.