Chapter 886 Transfer of backward industries
The economic colonization of the Abyssinian Empire is an important step in establishing an East African economic circle, because currently it is the only independent country with a good economic size around East Africa.
Like other countries and regions, except for the British Cape Town and the Italian Red Sea Colony, none has a population of more than one million.
Cape Town has an early history of development. It has experienced hundreds of years of development from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. After the end of the South African War, a large number of Boers returned to the Cape Town colony, further increasing the population of Cape Town.
The initial emergence of the Red Sea colonies was the result of population overflow from the Apennine Peninsula. After Germany, Italy has become the mainstream group of European immigrants. Mozambique and Angola in East Africa have absorbed many Italian immigrants in the past few years.
This allowed the Italian immigrant group in East Africa to quickly catch up with the Slavic immigrant group. However, the Slavic immigrant group in East Africa mainly came from various regions in the southern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and had been deeply affected by Germanization to a certain extent. However, the number of Slavic immigrants from Tsarist Russia was not That’s too much.
The situation of the surrounding countries in East Africa, that is, except for the Abyssinian Empire, they are all colonies. This is the proper situation on the African continent. Non-indigenous independent countries like East Africa , is the real wonder.
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“Since 1873, a large amount of production equipment has been imported from Germany and other places, thus realizing the leap-forward development of our country’s industry. However, nearly two decades have passed and many equipment have lagged behind the times. East Africa as a whole has Industrial technology and equipment also need innovation, especially in non-emerging industrial fields.”
East Africa has always wanted to upgrade its industrial system, because most of the equipment imported into East Africa was in the 1970s, but the actual age of some equipment may be earlier.
Ernst continued: "At present, old industrial equipment is mainly concentrated in the central and eastern inland areas. Therefore, this technological equipment innovation should give priority to starting from the inland areas. At the same time, it should adopt East Africa's independent new technologies." Technology and new equipment are the main focus.”
“Of course, old equipment still does not need to be eliminated immediately, and it will be concentrated in the west and north. "In the 1970s, East Africa's territory was still mainly in the east, so the industry was basically deployed in the eastern region. In the 1980s, with the East Africa's development of the central region has transferred a large number of backward production capacities to the central region, promoting the rise of heavy industrial bases in the central region.
Of course, in the mid-to-late 1980s, as East Africa’s education, economy, and R&D capabilities improved, several key industrial fields in East Africa were deployed in the central region first, including electricity, automobiles, railways, etc. Achieving the same level of industrial level in the east.
However, compared with the eastern coastal region, the overall strength of the East African inland is still weaker. After all, the current technology center of the world is in Europe, and the eastern coastal area can more conveniently connect to the world market.
That’s why Dar es Salaam, Mombasa and other coastal cities can stand out among the cities in East Africa. You must know that in East Africa, this is because the East African government is biased, and the policy priority is to The result of tilting inland areas.
“my country’s inland areas currently have a good level of development and have become competitive with the eastern coastal areas. However, except for the central and eastern regions, the economic development of other regions in the country is seriously lagging behind, especially those that were incorporated into our country earlier. ”
“Now with the economies of the East African and Abyssinian empires. As cooperation deepens, we should deploy a group of industries close to the Abyssinian Empire to reduce production costs and further optimize the industry.”
Although there are a large number of backward industries in East Africa. These industries are relatively advanced in backward areas, especially in remote areas of East Africa.
The northern part of East Africa is not a small place. It mainly includes five major regions: the Azande Plateau, the upper Nile Basin, the Ethiopian Plateau, the Lake Turkana coastal plain, and the Somali Plain. The overall population size has reached more than 10 million. Although it is far from the central and eastern regions, from a national perspective, it has advantages over the south and west for the time being. Therefore, the focus of this transfer of backward industries is the northern region.
Of course, there is another consideration in moving these backward industries to the north, which is to be close to the regional market. In the land economy, East Africa itself occupies the central and southern regions except Cape Town. The African continent, so the land's external economy is mainly West Africa in the northwest and North Africa across the Sahara Desert.
After these old equipment introduced in the 1970s are moved to the north, they can continue to shine and complete their final care mission. As for the end, they will be completely eliminated.
Moving equipment to the north is much easier now than it was in the 1970s and 1980s. With the construction and popularization of East African railways and roads, the traffic conditions in East Africa today are not a little bit better than they were more than ten years ago. .
In the past, when East African industries migrated inland, industrial equipment relied on human and animal power to complete the work, which was much more difficult than it is now.
“The north, especially the northwest, is our country’s bridgehead to West Africa. With the development of the royal territory of Sigmaringen, the Belgian Congo, and the German Cameroon, the northwest will be an important hub for East Africa’s foreign trade in the future. First Ring."
"The central and eastern regions must further optimize their industries, especially in the fields of railways, steel, electric power, automobiles, and equipment manufacturing, to expand the advantages of emerging industries and enhance the competitiveness of traditional industries. In terms of production efficiency, in the field of traditional industries, the goal of central and eastern Africa in the future is to catch up with European and American countries.”
As for the west, East Africa’s positioning of the west, especially the coast, has a relatively high starting point, like Luanda. Cabinda, Benguela and other regions are targeting Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, so in addition to developing traditional industries, they will also focus on developing emerging industries.
It is the same as the original development strategy of East Africa in the central region. After all, the eastern coast of East Africa is anchored to the Asian and European markets, the inland areas are anchored to the national market, and the western part of the country will be anchored to Europe and the United States (mainly Latin America) in the future. )market.
Argentina and Brazil, both countries with good purchasing power, are important markets that cannot be ignored, especially Argentina. A large amount of agricultural products are exported to Europe, and the per capita living standard is catching up with developed countries and regions. The East African and western routes are directly connected to South America. So there is a geographical advantage.
Furthermore, Latin America is rich in various natural resources, which can facilitate the purchase of raw materials for coastal cities in western East Africa, and the resource endowment of the west itself is not bad.
In its previous life, Angola was one of the resource-rich countries in Africa, especially the richest in oil resources. In addition, it is close to the industrial zone in central East Africa, so it meets all the requirements for industrial development.
With the construction of two main railway lines, it will inevitably be connected with Central and Eastern China in the future and become the main industrial distribution area in East Africa.
So East Africa attaches far greater importance to the west, especially Angola, than to the north. In the final analysis, backward industries are the leftover soup in East Africa. The northern region can only eat these scraps, while East Africa attaches great importance to Angola. The arrangement is obviously not like this.
In addition to the above areas, only the southern region has no detailed planning. East Africa is not active in developing the southern region. One reason is that there is only the British Cape Town colony in the south. Relations between the two sides are poor, natural trade exchanges are infrequent, and there is a buffer zone. effect.
Although northern East Africa also borders the United Kingdom, Egypt, including the Sudan region, has extremely poor transportation conditions. As for British Somaliland, it is too small to pose a threat to East Africa.
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