There have been several macro-control measures in the history of China.
It is impossible to know how many times. You have to see the beginning of that era. If it is a feudal society, it is macro, because it is feudal autocracy and is subject to the macro-control of the court. After the founding of New China, it was macro-control until the reform and opening up 1978. After the reform and opening up, due to the market economy, macro-control has become less and less, but in some major events and some extraordinary periods, macro-control often appears to make up for the defects of the market economy.