Chapter 1162 The Value of Development (Third update, please subscribe)
Malaya is the youngest country in Southeast Asia and even Asia.
As a country, it only declared independence in August 1957. However, although it is young, its per capita income ranks high among Asian countries.
This is entirely due to the industrial transfer of Nanyang to Malaya - in the past few years, labor-intensive industries represented by textiles, clothing, and toys have gradually moved from Nanyang to Malaya. While promoting the economic development of Malaya, it also attracted a large number of labor forces - millions of young people came to the city from the countryside.
The influx of a large population and the construction of factories have made Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang, Taiping, Malacca, etc. prosperous in a short period of time. High-rise buildings have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, becoming modern cities.
Among these cities, Kuala Lumpur is the most prosperous. Both sides of the road from Kuala Lumpur to Port Klang are full of factories and "new villages" where workers live. The neat six-story buildings are as neat as soldiers. Arranged between industrial areas.
The towering chimneys of the power plant spit out smoke, and sufficient electricity lights up the entire city. Every night, the lights turn the entire city into a city that never sleeps. In the brightly lit production workshops, hundreds of thousands of people The male and female workers of the factory are sweating, working overtime, and are busy. The products produced here will be shipped to European and American countries via container ships.
Although various countries continue to criticize Malaya’s sweatshops, this does not prevent its products from being imported into Europe and the United States. After all, they are cheap...so delicious. Although it failed to pass the review of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, it caused its products to be imported into Europe and the United States. Exports are restricted and production is affected by import quotas imposed by each country.
However, for Malaya, which has a population of only 11 million, export trade still prospers the entire national economy.
Because of the economic prosperity, not only the specialty stores in the commercial streets and the counters of department stores here sell products made in Nanyang.
It has also made Malaya the first stop for the export of Nanyang culture. The posters posted in cinemas in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and other places will always be Nanyang movies. The TV shows are also from Nanyang.
When "The Legend of White Snake" became a hit last year, I don't know how many people wrote or called the TV station, requesting that the broadcast time be postponed to 10 pm - because If you want to work overtime, you have to wait until after everyone gets off work. It can be said that at that time, everyone stayed up late watching White Snake.
It is precisely because of the popularity of "The Legend of White Snake" in Malaya and Singapore that Zhu Hong, the White Snake, made her first stop in the New Year in Kuala Lumpur. She immediately caused a sensation when she arrived. For a time, Malay people The front page of the newspaper is full of photos and news of the White Snake.
In terms of popularity, even news related to the Prime Minister cannot compare with it and can only be relegated to the second page.
In this regard, Lin Cangzuo, as the Prime Minister, not only said nothing, but even specially asked his wife to attend the meeting and asked the White Snake for an autographed photo, because he himself is also the White Snake. Rainbow fans.
This shows how popular this TV series is in Malaya and other places.
However, although the White Fairy is here now, for Lin Cangyou, he does not have time to chase stars or invite her to the Prime Minister's Office. Now, for Lin Cangyou, he has more important things at the moment. .
In the Prime Minister's Office in Kuala Lumpur, staring at the city lights outside the window, Lin Cangyou just stood there, smoking silently. He knew what was behind these lights and the bustling city.
It’s the people who work overtime day and night there. Unlike Southeast Asia, there is no such thing as an eight-hour working day in Malaya... I can’t say it doesn’t exist, at least it’s written in the law.
But...it's just written.
It is most normal to work overtime here, and people also like to work overtime. After all, the factory has overtime pay.
In fact, as the Prime Minister of Malaya, Lim Chong Eu knows very well that without overtime pay, the basic salary in the factory can only make a living.
So, workers must work overtime day and night in order to make a living. Only in this way can they support their families!
But...this is the price of economic development.
“We must develop the economy at all costs. Only in this way can Malaya develop into a country like Nanyang!”
This is the price of development!
With this thought in mind, Lin Cangyou took a puff of his cigarette and said:
"After the construction of the first "Four-Year Plan" is completed, economically, Malaya will become Southeast Asia is second only to Nanyang, and our purpose in promoting construction is to build Malaya into a country like Nanyang."
Lin Cangyou said word by word:
< br>“It’s that simple – that’s what we aim for!
We build cities and factories just to make life better for everyone. This is exactly what we are pursuing..."
Although there is no one in the room, he is still here telling all this. , there is a manuscript on the desk beside him, which is the manuscript for his speech to the public tomorrow.
In order to be able to speak without a script, he needs to memorize it in advance
After all, it will be done by then. , there will be many people watching this speech on TV. Of course, his speech is in Mandarin. Malaya is the same as Nanyang, and Mandarin is Chinese. After all, 70% of the population in Malaya are Tang people, far more than Of course, the language of other ethnic groups must be based on the language of the dominant ethnic group! There is no problem with this. Of course, other people must learn Mandarin!
“We must not only build a textile industry, but also Establishing more modern factories, including the chemical industry, is also the development focus of Malaya's "Four-Year Construction Plan"..."
The "Four-Year Construction Plan" mentioned by Lin Chongyou is similar to Nanyang's "Four-Year Plan". It adopts mandatory plans through the government and relies on strong administrative intervention and government orders to promote the development of enterprises and the economy. For backward countries with underdeveloped economies, planned economic control can indeed accelerate economic development to the greatest extent.
Even now, Nanyang's economic development still relies on the formulation of the "Four-Year Plan" to promote economic development and establish the direction of economic development. As the biological sons of Nanyang, Malaya, Siam, Mindanao, and Surabaya have also formulated corresponding development plans based on their economic scale and environment.
In fact, their economic development was directly formulated by the Nanyang Ministry of Commerce and Industry. While determining the export-oriented economic development strategy, Nanyang relied on its own "Flying Geese Model" demand, and develop an economic plan for it based on its own characteristics.
For example, in Siam’s development plan, agriculture accounts for a large share. This is because Siam’s high-quality rice enjoys a high reputation in the international market. The development of rice planting industry can be achieved through export. Obtain the foreign exchange needed to develop the economy.
The economic development of Malaya cannot copy its model. Except for rubber plantations and other tropical plantations, the mountainous rainforest terrain limits its agricultural development path. Naturally, targeted investigation of its economic construction plan is needed.
But Malaya did not put itself on the development path of completely taking over the labor-intensive industries of Nanyang. Two years after independence, Lim Chong Eu, as Prime Minister, under the advice of a group of young staff around him, On to the next stage of development.
From labor-intensive industries to heavy chemical industries.
At the end of last year, Lin Chongyou visited the UK. After the London smog incident, the UK's tolerance for highly polluting industries has been greatly reduced.
During the visit, Lin Cangyou noticed that in the year after the 1952 smog incident, the British government established the Beaver Committee to investigate the smog incident and formulate response measures. In 1956, the British government promulgated the world's first modern Air pollution prevention and control law in the sense of the Clean Air Act. The bill includes large-scale renovation of traditional stoves for urban residents and the gradual realization of natural gas for residents' lives; reducing coal consumption and adopting central heating in winter; establishing smoke-free zones in cities, prohibiting the use of fuels that can produce smog; power plants and heavy industries as Large smoke emitting households were forced to relocate to the suburbs and so on.
It was this bill that allowed Lin Cangyou to see an opportunity - the relocation of factories in London was not going well. Companies that London does not welcome does not mean that other cities or regions will welcome them. After all, no one wants to let their city become "Fog City".
Therefore, this has led to many industrial companies being turned away by many cities due to pollution problems, and some factories were even forced to temporarily close.
It even includes several factories of Imperial Chemicals in the UK. High-polluting companies like Imperial Chemicals, after the London smog incident, are no longer correct in the UK and are the kind that everyone calls for beating. .
Although Duan's chemical industry is not a low-end industry at present, and is even a "high-tech" industry with high technical content, its pollution is indeed not small.
But once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, no one in the UK is willing to become the second "fog city". Therefore, Imperial Chemical is stuck in a problem - there is no suitable location to set up a factory. .
For this reason, Lin Cangyou personally came to lobby and invited them to invest and set up factories in Malaya.
In this era, the chemical industry is still a cutting-edge technology.
If it were another country, Imperial Chemical would not necessarily consider it, but Malaya is a member of the Commonwealth and has a stable political situation. There is absolutely no problem with Malaya's reliability.
Imperial Chemicals, which had been considering moving, naturally accepted Lin Cangyou's invitation and agreed to inspect Malaya.
After some investigation, the British immediately discovered that Malaya had advantages that London could not match.
First, labor costs in Malaya are very low, much lower than in London.
Second, Malaya is closer to the oil-producing areas of the Middle East than London, which means that the transportation cost of raw materials is cheaper.
Third, this is very important. The Tang people in Malaya are highly educated, and young people are basically junior high school or above.
Moreover, the relationship between Malaya and Nanyang is friendly, the situation is stable, and the government is efficient.
With all this, the two parties naturally reached an investment consensus. Imperial Chemical plans to invest 20 million pounds in Malaya to build a modern chemical enterprise. This is the largest investment in the history of Malaya. Even Nanyang has never invested in such a large project here.
Although both parties have reached a consensus, there is still another issue that needs to be considered - pollution from chemical companies!
So, Lim Chong Eu needs to go to Perak to personally explain to the local residents the importance of this factory to the Malayan economy and future. Of course, he also needs to tell them that the government will pay attention to the pollution situation and ensure that there will be no causing physical harm to residents.
In short, no matter what, this project must be promoted, just like the steel factory in Port Klang. Although Lin Cangyou knew very well that Malaya's population and education level restricted the development here, he still tried his best to develop the local industrial economy.
He once returned to Tangshan during the Anti-Japanese War. Although he was a doctor and served as the medical director of the Navy Headquarters, he saw the cost of the country's backward industrial economy from those injured soldiers, so he It is clear what should be developed.
“...Eventually, we will build steel, chemicals, shipbuilding and various other high-tech industries. Perhaps, in the process, we may face some pollution problems, but... This is the price of development! ”
When Lin Cangyou was memorizing the content of the manuscript, he once again looked out the window, staring at everything outside the window, and said to himself:
"This is our country, we will turn a wealthy, It is the responsibility of our generation to hand over developed Malaya to our children and grandchildren instead of a poor and backward Malaya..."
At this time, his words were passionate and seemed to be It's calling out to people, and it's like blowing the horn of the future.
(End of this chapter)