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Based on network aggregation and pinning control methods, this paper investigates the problem of control design for strategy consensus of large-scale networked evolutionary games. The large-size network is divided into several small subnetworks by the aggregation method, and a pinning control algorithm is proposed to achieve the strategy consensus of small subnetworks. Then, the matchable condition between the small subnetworks is realized by the input\u2013output control. 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