Statecraft as a Platform?

A while back I was going through Reading the China Dream, a translated collection of works from the Chinese intelligentsia. Often in the West, we have a perception that discourse in China is quite conformist; however the texts on Reading the China Dream is really interesting, I recommend a read. As opposed to Western discourse, which fights over basic first principles, Chinese intellectuals make many novel and unexpected takes.

One neat take I found is an author who saw local governments as "platforms" - akin to something like Amazon or Uber. We often see the state as a lawgiver or as an institution as justice, meanwhile the Chinese see it as an enabler of economic growth and the enabler of the invisible hand. The state creates a lot of the infrastructure that the private sector is built on - roads, regulations, etc - that are necessary for free competition. Perhaps Geolibertarianism can take this insight, that markets are created by states, and the state should have a role as the creator of freedoms. Wouldn't that be far more beneficial to liberty than a nightwatchman state which allows rent-seekers to roam free?