  A systematic study of the Weyl-type / Yang-Mills-type action possessing local
conformal invariance and quadratic curvature is undertaken. The dynamical
breaking of this conformal invariance / scale invariance induces general
relativity (GR) as an effective long distance limit of the theory. We prove
that the corresponding field equations of the theory have the linearly rising
potential, which naturally possesses asymptotic freedom and color confinement
properties of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Solutions to the neutrino mass and
dark energy problems come as free gifts of this formulation. This approach
provides a strong gravity basis for the unification of quantum Yang-Mills
theory (QYMT) with Einstein GR.
