Chapter 858 Rubber Industry
An obvious example of the laziness of the local black people in Kolo is that before this, Kolo had allocated a special fund of 100 billion Kolo shillings through the United Bank of West Africa Interest-free and low-interest loans are provided to qualified Kolo people to help them become self-employed and start companies.
The maximum interest-free loan amount for individuals is a 10-year loan of 100,000 kolos, and the maximum low-interest loan amount can be as high as 1 million kolos.
At that time, Kolo was making huge profits from offshore oil fields. This measure was implemented to stimulate the domestic economy. After all, the Kolo shilling itself was issued by the United Bank of West Africa with the permission of the Monetary Authority— —They choose to provide interest-free and low-interest loans to the people to help them run industries and start businesses to increase their incomes, rather than giving the money directly to individuals.
But a few years have passed, and the effects of this original move have also appeared.
It is true that a small number of people have seized the general trend of Kolo's economic development through these interest-free and low-interest loans, and have become a wealthy class by expanding production and operations.
But more people regard these loans provided by the government to individuals for business production as "welfare" and have already squandered them all.
At present, Kolo has issued a total of more than 100 billion Kolo shillings in loans, but less than 5% of them have been successfully recovered...
However, in this case, originally Kolo also had expectations - it's just that the reality is that the repayment rate is lower than they expected. It doesn't mean that the loans that cannot be recovered are completely wasted. After all, all they paid out were Kolo shillings. Printed in Luo's own country and circulated, it also has some effect on promoting social consumption.
And in itself, this is just a screening of those people who are lazy and do not seek to make progress - according to the relevant regulations issued by Kolo, the Kolo government will impose compulsory measures on those who cannot repay their loans on time. Measures were taken to put them into "detention" and use their labor force to repay the loans.
This approach may cause protests in Western developed countries, but in Africa, it is really not a big deal.
After all, this is all about those people who have taken state loans for pleasure and are unable to repay them.
In some areas of Kolo, the state-owned Kefa Investment (Kolo Development Investment Company) has participated in investing in many industries, including plantations of cash crops such as rubber, cocoa and coffee beans, and these Most of the people who owe government loans and cannot repay them on time are restricted in their freedom to work in these plantations and factories.
Of course, it will not be too exploitative, but the rewards they can get are only used to maintain their survival, and the rest is used to repay the national loan.
For this reason, the Kolo government has also seen the widespread laziness among the people, so they need to suppress this through various systems.
Speaking of which, compared with the 7 million people when the new government was first established, with the social stability and economic development of Kolo, their population has now increased and is close to 7.7 million people.
But even so, the population density of Kolo is not high. After all, Lijiapo has a population of 5 million and the area is only less than one-seventy-seventh of Kolo. That is the real population density. great.
Moreover, the largest city in Africa is Cairo, with a population of more than 10 million. Even Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, has a population of 8 million, exceeding the population of Kolo.
Currently the largest city in Colo is its southernmost port city, Loti, which was also the former capital of Colo - although with the construction of the new capital of Bulita, a considerable number of government agencies and company headquarters were relocated Once there, because Loti is the first good port in West Africa and is supported by industries including petrochemicals and shipping, its population has still increased compared with the initial level. The current population has reached 2.6 million, accounting for 10% of the total population of Kolo. one-third of the population. Barron hopes that within ten years, Kolo will have the largest large city in West Africa, but for the urbanization of Kolo, he hopes to have a city based on industries such as industry and manufacturing, rather than like many cities in Africa. , which simply moved many people into the city without corresponding industrial support, resulting in slums all over the city except for a few "prosperous areas" rich areas.
Therefore, in the policies formulated by Colo, relying on industry, attaching importance to education, and forming quality population growth are what they pursue.
For this reason, Kolo also promulgated a corresponding immigration bill - because the quality level of the people in Kolo was much lower than that in developed countries, and the growth of people's quality was a slow process. Initially, At that time, they mainly cooperated with the United Kingdom and France on the "repatriation of illegal immigrants" to absorb skilled personnel from the "illegal immigration settlements" in Benin and Ghana.
These immigrants mainly come from the Middle East, and a few come from Eastern Europe. However, due to screening, only more than 10,000 "new immigrants" have been absorbed by Kolo over the years...
In addition, because of the cooperation between Kolo and China in many aspects such as infrastructure and manufacturing, many Chinese people came to Kolo, and in the end some of them stayed here. The number of these is not large. .
As for people from Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso and other countries around Kolo who come to Kolo, they mainly get short-term work visas. Kolo rarely gives these people formal citizenship. identity.
In addition, although Kolo will not carry out coercive measures to control the country's population growth, he will also carry out so-called "eugenics and eugenics" policies in many ways.
For example, in Kolo, free "condom" distribution offices can be seen everywhere, and there are also many specialized agencies that distribute these free measures in public places.
In addition to preventing the occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, it also prevents some people at the bottom from having more children per person...
Kolo itself has some Africa itself, the factory for rubber products, is an important banana growing area in the world. From the map, areas such as Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria are roughly at the same latitude as Qiongdao in China, and their climates are very suitable. Rubber cultivation.
Of course, this includes Kolo.
Among them, Cote d'Ivoire has the largest rubber plantation in Africa, followed by Nigeria, Ghana and other countries.
Although Colo’s rubber planting area is not as large as that of these countries, Colo’s capital is still relatively strong, including the West African Group and Colo’s state-owned Kefa Investment, which have invested in Ghana, There are rubber plantations in Nigeria and other countries, and there are many related rubber product manufacturing industries built in Kolo.
Just like "condoms", Colo's domestic production is not small. They have joint ventures with related companies such as British and Chinese, and some of these brands are still very popular in Africa.
(End of this chapter)